22/04/2022

Human rights report reveals ISIS prison network in Syria

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Syria Justice and Accountability Center based in Washington, D.C. has issued a report revealing an extensive network of 152 detention centers used by the Islamic State (ISIS) terrorist organization to arrest civilians.

Three years after ISIS had been defeated in Syria by the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), human rights organizations are still seeking to document its crimes committed from 2013–2017.

According to the report; about 6,000 bodies in dozens of ISIS mass graves in North and East Syria, representing nearly half of the total number of missing persons in the region, have been discovered.

The report indicated that some perpetrators are still alive and being held in prisons, while others had returned to their countries of origin. It is likely ISIS members can help identify the victims.

The center relied on testimonies and documents it obtained last year, revealing in its report that it had met 221 families of missing persons and had 21 interviews with witnesses or survivors of ISIS prisons and 12 interviews with former affiliates of the terrorist group.