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adopting manifestations of violence, sabotage and setting fire to public service
buildings, they are faced with an adequate number of unarmed law enforcement
agents with a mission to control the situation. In this case when few individuals
initiate shooting at the police as well as other protestors in order to create
confusion and discredit the Syrian general authorities, law enforcement agents
usually move away from the demonstration to avoid clashes with terrorists, in
order to prevent more fire arm shootings that might hurt protestors. Law
enforcement agents are not allowed to use fire arms under any circumstances,
except to react in self defense while fighting terrorist groups, or when these groups
terrorize and mass-murder other citizens in locations where law enforcement
agents happen to be. The Strategy followed by law enforcement agents in dealing
with the few peaceful demonstrations and the bigger number of riots since the
begging of events in Syria is to adopt unlimited self control. This strategy, paired
with strict orders not to use fire arms – even with riots- has resulted in murders of
hundreds of officers and law enforcement agents, and thousands were injured by
fire arms, swards and knifes used by terrorists. There is no immunity for officers
and other law enforcement members who break orders, or exceed the power
granted to them, in doing so, they expose themselves to severe punishments
according to the penal code. In the subject of rescuing the injured and provide
them with the appropriate medical attention, the competent medical emergency
bodies equally perform services destined to all citizens in need of medical
attention, whether they are peaceful protestors, terrorists or law enforcement
agents, In support of this policy. Orders are to refrain from arresting any injured
person who is transported to a hospital, regardless of this person’s extent of
criminal actions conducted during demonstrations during which he was injured.
13.
The Ministry of Justice in Syria conducts a continuous, methodological and effective
operation of monitoring and inspection of all Syrian prisons. This procedure complies with
regulations of penal courts mentioned in article (421) to (425) as follows:
Article 421: regulating prisons and detention places in a decree issued by the
Council of Ministers.
Article 422: both the judge of peace and the investigation judge are asked to inspect
all detainees once a month, as for penal courts presidents, they need to do it once
every three months.
Article 423: Penal courts presidents, investigation judges and the judges of peace are
authorized to give prison guards orders to undertake measures related to
investigations and court cases.
Article 424: Every person with information about a detention location other than
those allowed by the government is asked to communicate this information to the
attorney general, vice attorney general, or to the justice of peace.
Article 425:
1When the attorney general, or vice attorney general, or the justice of peace
get informed about such illegal detention locations, they are asked to immediately go
and release any detainee that might be on location.
2It they discern a legal reason for this person’s detention; the detainee should
be transferred to the custody of the general attorney or the judge of peace
immediately.
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A record of the situation should be established.
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