Nearly 100 people have been recorded as abducted or disappeared in Syria since the start of the year, with reports of enforced disappearances continuing, the UN human rights office said on Friday.
“Eleven months since the fall of the former government in Syria, we continue to receive worrying reports about dozens of abductions and enforced disappearances,” Thameen Al Keetan, representative of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), told reporters in Geneva.
The OHCHR has documented at least 97 people who have been abducted or disappeared since January, and said it was difficult to keep an accurate figure.
The latest number is in addition to more than 100,000 people who went missing under ousted president Bashar Al Assad, Mr Al Keetan said.
Former Syrian president Bashar Al Assad. Getty Images
Mr Al Assad was toppled last year in an 11-day rebel offensive that ended a 13-year civil war. The offensive was led by the now dissolved Hayat Tahrir Al Sham group, whose leader Ahmad Al Shara is now president.
Many Syrians want to see accountability for abuses suffered under the former regime, including in a brutal prison system. Although some families have been reunited with their loved ones since the fall of the Assad regime, many stil
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