White Helmets<\/a> civil defense organization, which operated in opposition-held areas before Assad’s fall.<\/p>\nHe died in a hospital in Latakia on Sunday after being released from jail. He had been detained days earlier following an “allegation of theft involving a sum of money,\u201d Latakia\u2019s internal security command said in a statement, without giving more details.<\/p>\n
Syria\u2019s Minister of Emergency and Disaster Management Raed al-Saleh, who was previously head of the White Helmets, said on X that Ghamira had died of \u201ccomplications from cerebral and gastrointestinal hemorrhaging\u201d that \u201cresulted from a beating he sustained after being detained at the al-Haffah police station.\u201d<\/p>\n
Al-Saleh and Ghamira\u2019s relatives said he had hemophilia, a condition affecting the blood\u2019s ability to clot.<\/p>\n
Ghamira\u2019s uncle, Issam Ghamira, said in a video interview with state news agency SANA that the family had told the police chief in al-Haffah that his nephew had hemophilia and warned against hitting him. Despite that, he said, his nephew was hit while in custody.<\/p>\n
Syria\u2019s interior ministry announced an investigation into Ghamira\u2019s death and said seven interior ministry personnel were detained for questioning.<\/p>\n
Syria\u2019s Interior Ministry spokesperson Noureddine al-Baba, speaking to journalists, acknowledged \u201cshortcomings and deficiencies\u201d in some of the country’s police departments but said others were doing \u201cexceptional\u201d work.<\/p>\n
\u201cGod willing, this painful incident will serve as a catalyst for positive change in the operations of the ministry of interior,” he said.<\/p>\n
Watchdogs call Ghamira\u2019s death part of a wider problem<\/p>\n
In a report released in March, the U.N. Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Syrian Arab Republic said it had documented \u201ctorture and ill-treatment\u201d in 18 official detention facilities and 12 \u201cmakeshift facilities\u201d in different areas of Syria between January and October 2025, in the months following Assad’s ouster as the new government asserted control.<\/p>\n
The practices it documented included beating prisoners with rifle butts, sticks, pipes, bars and cables; the use of electric shocks and other forms of torture; mock executions; and sexual violence.<\/p>\n
Syrians for Truth and Justice, a human rights organization that tracks abuses, in a report published earlier this month said that \u201csevere beatings, electric shocks, humiliation, threats, deprivation of basic necessities, and deaths in custody continue to be common practices at the hands of multiple security and military actors.\u201d<\/p>\n
The group concluded that the incidents were too widespread to treat as isolated incidents but that there was not evidence of a \u201csingle centralized system equivalent in structure and direction to the torture apparatus entrenched by the Assad regime.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is somehow widespread, but it\u2019s not structured,\u201d Bassam Alahmad, the group\u2019s executive director, told The Associated Press. \u201cFor us, there is no evidence that these orders came from the commanders to torture people, but still (the authorities) have a responsibility to stop this behavior.”<\/p>\n
Syrians whose loved ones disappeared or died in detention centers during Assad\u2019s rule said they were disturbed to see the patterns being repeated under the new government.<\/p>\n
Families for Freedom, a group representing relatives of detainees, said in a statement, \u201cWhat happened to Mohammed reopens the wounds of torture and death in detention for thousands of Syrian families \u2014 practices Syrians have struggled for years to end, and the recurrence of which cannot be accepted today.\u201d<\/p>\n
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