Syrian Government Violations Against University Student Like Kill, Torture to Death, Arrest, Threaten, and Expelled of University

Syrian Government violations against university student like kill, torture to death, arrest, threaten, and expelled of university. Period covered: since the beginning of revolution to the date of issue Prepared by Syrian Network for Human Rights: Report contexts: • Introduction • Details • Attachment and annexes • Legal conclusions • Responsibilities • Recommendations Introduction: Syrian Government and its representatives do not stop their allegation that they are fight- ing terrorism and AL-Qaeda, but those allegation easily collapse when we talk about the systematic violations against civil society leaders, media activists, and popular movements’ leaders; the most prominent of them are university students who have been arrested, tortured to death, and expelled from university, they form the vast majority of detainees, it explains why undemocratic voices have arisen and spreadrecently, as the Syrian Regime planned by arrestingand killing the real leaders of Syrian Popular Movement. At the beginning we have to refer to strategic and active role played by university students in Syrian Popular Movement, where they participated in demonstrations, most of media activists,paramedics and physicians are university students, and because of their activities and attitudes Syrian regime focused on them, where according to our estimations at least 35.000 students (male and female) have been arrested in Syrian Regime’s Prisons. When the struggle against Syrian Regime turned into an armed struggle, hundreds of them turned into fighters in Free Syrian Army and killed in battles. Government Forces suppressedthe revolutionary movement and pursued university students’ activists across the so-called “National Union of Syrian Students”, which is an insti- tution of Al-Baath party supervised by AmmarSaati, and includes university studentshave been recruited as informants in spite of security forces’ elements and Shabiha who are not university students but their mission is to watch, suppress, and penetrate activists’ ranks. There are also few professor have been recruited to spy on the students, they played basic role in suppressing the students, by taking photos for the students and giving them to security branches and National Union of Syrian Students, where it led to arrest them and expelled them from universities. In contrast, there were many honorable professors, who stood by the students in the revolutionary movement, defended on them, and exposed themselves to be beaten, humiliated and expulsion from university. Several committees andcoordinations have been formed to organize the revolutionary role of university students and document the daily violations against them and follow their af- fairs after expulsions from universities, most prominent is Union of Free Syrian Students, in addition to another groupings and formations, who made great effort to protect and care the students outside and outside Syria. 2 [email protected] www.sn4hr.org The Report: Violations against university students focus in 6 main points: First: unlawful killings Second: Detention and torturing to death Third: expulsions from universities. Fourth: break into the campus and arrest demonstrators’ students inside. Fifth: Destroy university buildings and turn some headquarters to military barracks. Sixth: exploit university students in pro-government marches and suspend their lectures. Details: First: unlawful killings: SNHR documented at least 1629 university student killed by Government’s Troops including 137 women, and 98 arrested causes of their documentary, media or relief activities and tortured to death. The following link contains the investigation of 510 cases registered by name,date , college and the way of death . https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B9Bj18tlYYKBTHJGVXI4VlNfalE/edit?usp=sharing Second: Detention and torturing to death: SNHR estimated number of university students that have been arrested from various governorates with more than 35000 detainees, including 4000 female student. Have been exposed to different types of tortures that we documented in many reports of killing under torture, at least 98 student tortured to death. Many female student have been tortured and raped inside prisons. Syrian Network for Human Rights indicate that arresting and torturing were systematic and widespread operations which targeted different universities in the Syrian Governorate, that indi- cates that it is central decision and we will provide you with examples in all Syrian governorates. Third: expulsions from universities: Cause of their participation in revolutionary movement and organizing demonstrations and communicating with media agencies, human rights organizations or relief work, Syrian government arrested thousands of university students whether inside university or in their way back to home and villages, and expulsed them from universities. Leaked documents of National Union of Syrian Students condemn Syrian Government; it shows request prepared by AlbaathParty branch in university and offered to University Presi- dent to expel students for their participation in demonstrations took place inside universities. https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B9Bj18tlYYKBSnJDUTV4QWJEbFU/edit?usp=sharing Another document to expel students participated in anti-government demonstrations: https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B9Bj18tlYYKBS0VzTGVXMksxdEU/edit 3 [email protected] www.sn4hr.org Decision to expel Lattakia university’s students from university housing: https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B9Bj18tlYYKBZXNaV245akRpWTA/edit?usp=sharing https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B9Bj18tlYYKBdF9fNlM3Q1ljS1k/edit?usp=sharing The following attachment contain the name of students that have been expelled from university in different Syrian Governorates, we would like to notify that this is what we could document, although there are thousands of detainees have been arrested from more than one year and didn’t attend universities or examined. https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B9Bj18tlYYKBRm1Bemc5OG52TjA/edit?usp=sharing Fourth: break into the campus and arrest demonstrators’ students inside. Government forces ruthlessly, systematically and widely suppress university students in all of the Syrian Governorate, which indicate that this is central decision, we will provide examples from all the governorate especially Aleppo University that tops all Syrian Universities with it- soutstanding students’ mobility. We would like to indicate that the intensive existence to intelligence elements and Shabiha inside the campus to restrict the freedom of the students and monitor their actions and words carefully and strictly. Samar female student in Aleppo University, she told us on the events of 15 and 16 January 2012 “Intensive existence of security and Shabiha, they had lists for wanted students, each students enter the university they take his identity and compare with their lists” “The next day students demonstrated condemning the terrible acts of security forces and Shabi- ha, after a while dozens of Shabiha and security forces broke into University City, they beat many students especially in buildings 11 and 12, then they evacuate buildings 16,18,19 allocated for female students, I got news about rapes happened there, dozens of students got hurts and so many arrested, many students transferred to emergency they were suffering from critical injuries and fractures, after that university management issued an expulsion decree of large number of students cause of these demonstrations.” SNHR recorded many cases where supervisors and professors contributed in intelligence operations, and in suppressing and insulting university students As an example of that: Professor Jamal Hamdosh: head of Mathematics Department in Aleppo College of Science contributed in raisingintelligence reports on the students, he also assaulted female student with his hand in front of hundreds of eyewitnesses in 19/1/2012, Syrian government doesn’t only recruit Shabiha and security forces, but also teaching stuff as well. Fifth: Destroy university buildings and turn some headquarters to military barracks. Government forces committed wide sabotage operation during random shelling and even deliberate shelling as shelling Aleppo University building by missiles, shelling faculty of architectural in Damascus, and during raids of many universities where anti-government demonstrations happened. Basel a dental student from Aleppo University told us how security forces and Shabiha brutally broke and sabotage the university. 4 [email protected] www.sn4hr.org “When the demonstration ended, students flee from security forces and Shabiha into the campus, they caught on of our colleague andbrutally attacked him, so we made a site-inside the faculty and wore our medical gowns, and started exclaim: we want the detainees, they got crazy and tried to raid the building, but they couldn’t cause the door was closed, so they broke the windows and came in from another door, they randomly smashed the contents of the building, arrested another student inside faculty of Medicine and brutally and en masse beat him” Some universities also turned into military barracks contain tanks, armored vehicles, soldiers and Shabiha As an example Faculty of petrochemical engineering in Homs University: The following video from inside the faculty: Video shows sabotage of anatomy laboratory of Dentistry Faculty in Aleppo University: Sixth: exploit university students in pro-government marches and suspend their lectures. Government forces forced university students

Load more