Since 2011, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has repeatedly raised concerns regarding the detention of children who are perceived to be a threat to national security, suspected of participating in violent activity, or alleged to belong to armed groups. God Almighty didn’t give me children, but he was my entire life. Everyday I see him.Įvery day I tell him a story. We came to the conclusion that his death was in custody, obviously, and that the underlying cause is blunt force traumatic injury.Įvery day. And one thing that we consider is possible, they were using some sort of a rounded object-a baton or a pipe.
NIZAM PEERWANI, Forensic Pathologist, Consulting Expert for Physicians for Human RightsĪnd then as you go down to the lower extremities you see there’s a very significant injuries. He has this enormous areas of contusion of his upper extremities-both the left forearm, the elbows, and the right arm.ĭR. You can look at his face and his face will tell you that he’s pretty young. Now this, this was a person that was partially wrapped in a plastic sheet. Thousands of the photographs were posted online. They took Ahmad there, and, after that, he disappeared.Ī military defector smuggled tens of thousands of photographs out of Syria showing bodies of dead detainees. Those young men left, and Ahmad had to stay behind. After about an hour, the officer started shouting, “Who does this mobile belong to?!” They made Ahmad and the other young men get out of the car and fill sandbags. On August 2nd 2012, Ahmad returned to Syria because his mother had died.
We his brother Shadi was killed, we sent Ahmad to Lebanon, to get him away from the raids and arrests that were bring conducted by security forces. I used to count them on one piece of paper, then another… every month, every month.Īhmad al-Musalmani was a 14-year-old boy from Syria. Since the day they took Ahmad from me, I counted the days. Untold numbers have been tortured or have died in custody. Thousands of children in war zones have been detained without charge as national security threats.
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