Damascus, SANA- The man who leaked tens of thousands of photos and documents testifying to the crimes of the ousted regime against detainees has revealed his identity for the first time: he is Chief Warrant Officer Farid al-Muthan, head of the judicial evidence office in Damascus military police, he is originally from the city of Daraa, after living for years under the name Caesar.
In an interview with the TV channel “Al-Jazeera”, al-Muthan, who contributed to drafting of the “Caesar law” that imposed sanctions against the ousted regime, recounted horrifying details about the crimes of murder and torture committed by the regime in the basements and prisons, as well as the means to bring out more than 27,000 photos of Syrian detainees killed under torture.
Al-Muthan spoke about the collection of evidence and data that he disclosed outside Syria, which formed the core of the Caesar Act files, articulating that the orders to take photos and authenticate the regime’s crimes came from the highest levels of power to ensure that the killings were actually carried out, and that the heads of the security services expressed their absolute loyalty to the criminal regime through photos of the bodies of the detention victims.
He indicated that the first photography of the bodies of detainees took place in the morgue of Tishreen military hospital in Damascus for protesters from Daraa in March 2011, noting that the detainee, upon entering the prison, a number was placed on his body after he was killed, while the places for gathering and photographing the bodies of the victims of detention were in the morgue of the hospitals of Tishreen and Harasta, in addition to converting the garage of the military hospital of Mazzeh into a space for gathering bodies to photograph them as the number of victims increased.
Al-Muthan added that the number of bodies at the beginning of the Syrian revolution ranged between 10 and 15 per day, later reaching 50 per day, and the regime was writing that the cause of death of those it killed was cardiac and respiratory arrest, while the regime’s pillars practiced systematic blackmail against thousands of families of detainees without obtaining any information.
Al-Muthan concluded by saying: “We came out only for the truth in order to see the criminal”Bashar al-Assad” receive the punishment he deserves in Marja Square.”
Nisreen Othman / Fedaa
