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Republic, and calls for immediate medical and psychosocial support to be provided to
survivors of such crimes, and for every effort to be made to ensure justice for those who
have suffered as a result of such crimes;
13.
Also strongly condemns the widespread practice of enforced disappearance,
arbitrary detention and the use of sexual violence, torture and ill-treatment, especially in
detention facilities run by the Syrian authorities, including those acts referenced in the
reports of the Commission of Inquiry and those depicted in the evidence presented by
“Caesar” in January 2014, and notes that such acts may constitute violations and abuses of
international human rights law or violations of international humanitarian law;
14.
Further strongly condemns the reported killing of detainees in Syrian
Military Intelligence facilities, in particular in the Mezzeh airport detention facility, and
Military Security Branches 215, 227, 235, 248 and 291, and the reported killing of
detainees at military hospitals, including Tishreen and Harasta, and expresses deep concern
at reports that the regime used a crematorium to conceal a mass killing of prisoners at the
Saydnaya penitentiary complex;
15.
Calls upon the Syrian authorities and all other parties to the conflict to ensure
the effective implementation of Security Council resolutions 2139 (2014) of 22 February
2014 and 2254 (2015), and, in particular, to end the arbitrary detention and torture of
civilians in the Syrian Arab Republic, notably in prisons and detention facilities, as well as
kidnappings, abductions and forced disappearances, as demanded by the Council in its
resolution 2139 (2014);
16.
Recognizes the permanent damage that torture and ill-treatment, including
sexual abuse and violence, causes to its victims and their families, and condemns the denial
of medical services in all prisons and detention facilities;
17.
Calls for the appropriate international monitoring bodies to be granted
immediate access without undue restriction to all detainees and detention facilities, and for
the Syrian authorities to publish a list of all detention facilities;
18.
Calls upon all parties to the conflict to cease the mistreatment and torture of
detainees, to allow access to medical services for all detainees, and to provide information
on those they have detained to their families;
19.
Demands the immediate release of all persons arbitrarily detained, including
women, children, human rights defenders, humanitarian aid providers, medical personnel
and journalists, and notes the importance of ensuring justice for those arbitrarily detained;
20.
Condemns the reported forced displacement of populations in the Syrian
Arab Republic and its alarming impact on the demography of the country, and calls upon
all parties concerned to cease immediately all activities that cause these actions, including
any activities that may amount to war crimes and crimes against humanity;
21.
Strongly condemns violence against all persons based on their religious or
ethnic affiliation, including the indiscriminate use of car and suicide bombs, snipers and
hostage-taking, demands that all parties take all appropriate steps to protect civilians,
including members of ethnic, religious and confessional communities, and stresses that, in
this regard, the primary responsibility to protect the Syrian population lies with the Syrian
authorities;
22.
Also strongly condemns the damage and destruction of the cultural heritage
of the Syrian Arab Republic, in particular the destruction of the cultural heritage in Palmyra
and Aleppo, and the organized looting and trafficking of Syrian cultural property, as
outlined by the Security Council in its resolution 2199 (2015) of 12 February 2015, affirms
that attacks intentionally directed against historic monuments may amount to war crimes,
and underlines the need to bring the perpetrators of such crimes to justice;
23.
Recalls the decision of the Security Council in its resolution 2118 (2013) that
the Syrian Arab Republic should not use, develop, produce, otherwise acquire, stockpile or
retain chemical weapons, or transfer, directly or indirectly, chemical weapons to other
States or non-State actors, and, in keeping with the decision of the Council, expresses its
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