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“The Syrian Revolution Archive team recently found an official document confirming that Syrian-American engineer Layla Muhammad al-Shweikani was executed at Sednaya Military Prison in 2016, years after her martyrdom under mysterious circumstances in Assad regime detention centers. The document obtained by the Syrian Revolution Archive team is the first official evidence of al-Shweikani’s execution. She had been arrested in February 2016 at her home in Damascus because of her humanitarian and relief work in Eastern Ghouta, where she had helped document abuses and provide support to civilians since the outbreak of the Syrian revolution in 2011. Layla al-Shweikani was born in Chicago, USA, in 1990 and holds both American and Syrian citizenship. She was known for her humanitarian work and her efforts to support victims of the war before she was forcibly disappeared following her arrest. Although Assad regime authorities handed her family her death certificate in late 2018, the regime did not disclose how she died or where she was buried at the time, merely recording her death in the official records without explanation or justification. This new document confirms the scale of the abuses committed by the Assad regime in its prisons, particularly at Sednaya Prison, known as one of the worst detention centers in the world, where thousands of executions and systematic torture took place. International human rights organizations have called for a comprehensive investigation and for those responsible for this crime to be held accountable.” #Syria