Rights Group Says Two Prisoners Die After Torture

Two Islamic prisoners died recently after being tortured at security service detention centres, according to separate accounts published on January 12 on the London-based Syrian Human Rights Committee, SHRC website.



The organisation said it had received a letter from an informed source reporting that Muhammad Aman al-Shawa, a maths teacher at a secondary school in the eastern town of Dayr al-Zawr, died after being tortured at a military interrogation centre.



SHRC also published a report claiming that Yusuf Jabbuli of Aleppo, who was arrested by intelligence agents last month, died after being tortured in a similar facility. The source told the group that Jabbuli’s body had been handed back to his family.



The group has called for an investigation into the deaths.