{"id":13778,"date":"2026-05-26T12:00:41","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T12:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/05\/26\/torture-shia-elders-damascus-prisons-julani-regime\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T12:00:41","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T12:00:41","slug":"torture-shia-elders-damascus-prisons-julani-regime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/05\/26\/torture-shia-elders-damascus-prisons-julani-regime\/","title":{"rendered":"Allegations of Torture Against Shia Elders in Damascus Prisons by Julani Regime Elements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Syrian political activist has claimed that forces affiliated with the Julani regime have committed violent and inhumane acts against Shia elders and prominent figures in Damascus prisons. According to him, these actions are taking place inside detention centers and specifically target religious minorities.<\/p>\n<p>Mahmoud Al-Mowaldi told the media that these individuals deal with Shia prisoners in a &#8220;brutal&#8221; manner. He alleged that the aim of these behaviors is to incite sectarian strife and undermine Syria&#8217;s social fabric.<\/p>\n<p>The political activist believes that such conduct reflects the extremist stance and hostile outlook of these groups toward religious minorities in Syria. He warned that the continuation of this situation could lead to increased religious tensions within Syrian society.<\/p>\n<p>Al-Mowaldi also called for immediate action from Islamic communities and international organizations to investigate these allegations and prevent the continuation of such behaviors. So far, officials affiliated with the Julani regime have not issued any formal response regarding these claims.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Syrian activist accuses Julani regime forces of torturing Shia elders in Damascus prisons, urging international investigation to prevent religious tensions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13777,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13778\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}