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2 stories for 2026-03-16 · Political repression, arbitrary detention & extrajudicial violence · Syria

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⛓️ Political repression, arbitrary detention & extrajudicial violence · Al Jazeera Arabic

Former Golan Heights intelligence chief reveals abduction and Assad prison detention

A television program featured testimony from a former head of intelligence for the Golan Heights faction, revealing details about the faction's fall in 1967 and his subsequent abduction from Beirut. He disclosed spending 28 years in Syrian prisons.

⛓️ Political repression, arbitrary detention & extrajudicial violence · Asharq Al-Awsat

Damascus and SDF negotiating closure of political detainee cases

Damascus is working with the SDF (Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces) to close files on political detainees held by both sides. Families from Hasaka province have called for the release of their relatives detained in Alaya prison in Qamishli.