Bashir Alshogre
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Bashir Hdaifeh[1] (Arabic: بشير حديفه; born 7 April 1990), better known as Bashir Alshogre for his connection to his public-speaker and human rights activist cousin Omar Alshogre, was a Syrian human rights activist during the early years of the Syrian revolution of 2011. He was arrested by the Assad regime on November 16, 2012,[2] at his home in Baniyas, held in Damascus’ Military Intelligence Directorate (Syria) Branch 291, and then taken to Branch 215.[3] Bashir spent 473 days detained in the Assad detention system until he passed away on March 3rd, 2014 in Branch 215.[2] He was one of the over 17,000 people to die in custody across Syria between March 2011 and December 2015.[4]
Detainee at Syrian Detention Centers
Imprisonment
Shortly after the Syrian Revolution began in Daraa in 2011, Bashir joined demonstrations on the streets of his village, Al-Bayda.[5] However, on November 16, 2012, 22-year-old Bashir was detained by two armed militiamen who invaded his home in Baniyas and arrested him, alongside with his maternal cousin 17-year-old[6] Omar Alshogre, and siblings 17-year-old Nour, and 20-year-old Rashad.[3] They were captured in Baniyas and then taken to the Military Intelligence of Central Tartus, in which they were held, investigated and tortured for ten days in solitary confinement and oftentimes in groups of 10-15 prisoners.[5]
Illness and Death in Branch 215
Bashir, his siblings and cousin were transferred to another detention center in Homs, then to Branch 291 for around 6 hours [2] and finally taken to Branch 215 in Damascus.[3] This Syrian detention center, known as the “branch of slow death,”[2] is alleged to be responsible for torturing and killing a large number of detainees.[7] While held in prison and besides experiencing physical torture, Bashir underwent psychological torture including the torture of his cousin to disturb him and confess to crimes he had not committed.[8]
Already weak from the Syrian detention facilities' conditions, described as inhuman and degrading,[9] Bashir grieved his brother’s death and his sister’s imprisonment —- Rashad passed away after a few months of imprisonment in Branch 215, and his sister Nour was detained in the women’s cell of the same Branch 215.[5] Despite the acute shortages of food,[9] Bashir refused to eat until he became weaker and fell ill with tuberculosis in early 2014, and then passed away at the age of 23 on March 3, 2014.[3] Inmates that survived and coincided with Bashir in Branch 215 recount that they washed his body, laid him out in the center of the room and prayed the Islamic funeral|janazah funeral prayer for him. His cousin, Omar Alshogre, who was in charge of numbering corpses as can be seen on the Caesar Files, wrote Bashir’s prisoner number on his forehead.[3]
References
- ↑ "عمر الشغري: حكاية الموت في الفرع 215 | الجزء الأول | يا حرية (English Subtitles)". 24 May 2018.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 "Senate Testimony for Wednesday, March 11th, 2020" (PDF). Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Retrieved 30 September 2021.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 Aidi, Hisham (30 May 2019). "How One Man Survived Syria's Gulag". The Nation. Retrieved 30 September 2021.
- ↑ "Harrowing accounts of torture, inhuman conditions and mass deaths in Syria's prisons". Amnesty International. 18 August 2016. Retrieved 30 September 2021.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 Walli, Jamil (25 January 2017). "How this Syrian escaped imprisonment and torture for a new life in Sweden". The Local. Retrieved 30 September 2021.
- ↑ Porter, Lizzie (29 January 2017). "'How I'm still alive': Surviving Assad's prison cells". Al Jazeera. Retrieved 30 September 2021.
- ↑ Megally, Hanny; Naughton, Elena. "Gone Without a Trace: Syria's Detained, Abducted, and Forcibly Disappeared" (PDF). International Center for Transitional Justice. Retrieved 30 September 2021.
- ↑ Rogin, Josh (7 February 2019). "The vow of 'never again' is dying in Assad's prisons". The Washington Post. Retrieved 30 September 2021.
- ↑ 9.0 9.1 "Thousands of Foreigners Unlawfully Held in NE Syria". Human Rights Watch. 23 March 2021. Retrieved 30 September 2021.
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