The UN has called on the Syrian government to provide information about thousands of detained and missing people. “Now is the moment” to provide the information, not after the war ends, a UN official said. More than 360,000 people have died in the 7-year war, according to estimates from the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. ‘Custodial death’Last May, the Syrian military police and army provided information on those who had died to government civil registry offices. Pinheiro described the release of the information as “unprecedented” but added that each of the thousands of deaths of allegedly deceased detainees and/or missing people must be investigated.

Source: Egypt Independent November 29, 2018 09:00 UTC