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Exclusive: Children among 547 detained Syrians declared dead

Exclusive: Children among 547 detained Syrians declared dead

EVER since Yehya Hijazi and his two sons were detained in 2012 by the Syrian government, their relatives had clung to the hope they were still alive and might be released one day. But after a decade of silence from the authorities, their hopes were shattered when the independent Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) monitoring group contacted the Hijazi family to tell them it had obtained death certificates for all three. "You're hoping every second that you'll catch another glimpse of this person whom you love very much, that you'll hear any news of him," Yehya's brother Mohammad told…
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