Two brothers, identified as Hosam and Hassan Hendiya from Kfeir al-Zayt town in Wadi Barada district in Rural Damascus governorate, were arrested on September 7, 2024, by personnel from the Syrian regime’s Political Security Intelligence Directorate at a checkpoint in Madaya town in western Rural Damascus governorate. They were then taken to an undisclosed location.
The Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) notes that the arrests were carried out without any court-issued legal warrant being presented. The two detainees’ family was not informed of their arrest, while their phones were seized, and they have not been allowed to contact their family or a lawyer since then.
SNHR is concerned that they may be subjected to torture in detention and may go on to become yet other forcibly disappeared persons, with 85 percent of all those detained falling into this category.
We call for the provision of both material and moral reparations for Hosam’s and Hassan’s and all other victims of such detentions and for their families, and call on all parties to put an end to all arbitrary detentions whose only purpose is to spread mass fear and extort people.
We also call on the regime to reveal the fate of thousands of people forcibly disappeared in its detention centers. We are seriously concerned about their fates.
