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Death Notices for Syrian Prisoners Are Suddenly Piling Up
(Washington Post) Louisa Loveluck and Zakaria Zakaria - Since the spring, the Syrian government has released hundreds of death notices for political detainees to resolve the fate of thousands of missing Syrians as the regime prevails in its civil war. Many report that prisoners have been dead since the early years of the conflict. Authorities no longer fear they will provoke fiercer resistance by revealing the multitude of deaths in regime custody, experts say. Since 2011, 104,000 people have been detained or forcibly disappeared, according to the Syrian Network for Human Rights.