Eleven months after the collapse of Bashar al-Assad’s government, we continue to receive alarming reports of dozens of cases of kidnapping and enforced disappearance, an OHCHR spokesperson told local media.

The international body’s office pointed out that it has documented at least 97 cases of abduction or disappearance since the beginning of the year, although it stressed that the actual number could be higher due to lack of access to several regions of the country and families’ fear of reporting.

According to OHCHR data, this figure is in addition to the more than 100,000 people who have disappeared during the war, whose cases remain unsolved.

The spokesman said that peopkw’s security in Syria remains precarious, especially in coastal areas and the southern city of Suwaida.

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