A high-school student from Kafr Zita city in the northern suburbs of Hama governorate, named as Muhammad Nour Ahmad al Muhammad, was arrested by Syrian regime forces in July 13, 2014, in Hama city. Since then, he has been classified as forcibly disappeared, with the Syrian regime denying his arrest and preventing anyone, even a lawyer, from visiting him. On August 27, 2020, his family received information that had been registered as dead on July 15, 2015 at the Civil Registry. SNHR suggests that torture in a regime detention center is likely to be the cause of his death.
SNHR has received confirmation that Syrian regime forces didn’t hand over his body to his family; this is standard practice for the regime, with the bodies of the majority of detainees who die in its detention centers being disposed of through mass cremations. Since the whereabouts of these prisoners’ remains is unknown and they are not handed over to their relatives, they continue to be classified as being among the forcibly disappeared persons.
