Medical student Sameeh Bahrah, aged 26, has been held incommunicado at an unknown location, since his arrest on 30 April 2013. The same day, his father Bassam Bahrah, aged 52, also went missing. They may have been subjected to enforced disappearance.

Medical student Sameeh Bahrah, aged 26, was arrested at his family home in the al-Mezzeh district of Damascus on 30 April 2013. Eyewitnesses from the neighbourhood informed a member of Sameeh Bahrah’s family that on the evening of 30 April

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May 17, 2013 – (New York) – Government security branches in Raqqa city hold documents and potential physical evidence indicating that detainees were arbitrarily detained and tortured there while the city was under government control. Human Rights Watch researchers visited the State Security and Military Intelligence facilities in Raqqa, now under the de facto control of local armed opposition groups, in late April 2013.

Syrian Government Troops arrested at least 194000 Syrian citizens , including nearly 9000 under the age of 18 , 5400 women (1200 of them are female colleague students) and 35,000 male colleague students ,according to the last survey conducted by Syrian Network for Human Rights.

More than 7873 children have been killed by Syrian Government’s Armed Forces since the begun of Syrian revolution to 6-4-2013