The Syrian young man Abdul Hakim Ahmed Al-Balkhi, from Daraa governorate, was tortured to death only two weeks after his detention.
His family received his death certificate after he was subjected to severe torture.
Al-Balkhi was shot and injured by the regime security forces on March 8, before being arrested by the same forces.
Last week, the Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) documented the deaths of 230,224 Syrian civilians, including 15,272 who died due to torture, in addition to the arbitrary arrest/enforced disappearance of 154,817 others, while roughly 14 million citizens have been displaced.
In March 2011, the Arab Spring movement spread to Syria when civilians across the country began peacefully demonstrating against the government of President Bashar al-Assad.
Since then, thousands of Syrians were killed, arbitrarily detained, tortured, forcibly disappeared, internally displaced time and time again, and immigrated.
