SULAIMANI (ESTA) — Children held in a prison in northeast Syria are living in “incredibly precarious” conditions, the U.N. children’s agency said on Sunday.
UNICEF said the agency was ready to help support a new safe place in Syria’s northeast to take care of the most vulnerable children, according to AP.
One of UNICEF teams paid a visit to Ghweran-Sina’a prison in the northeastern Syrian city of Hasakah, AP reported.
The team said after visiting some children at the prison on Saturday that they have lived in dire conditions at the detention center for years and in January “witnessed and witnessed heightened violence” in and around the prison.
“Despite some of the basic services now in place, the situation of these children is incredibly precarious,” AP quoted UNICEF’s Syria representative Bo Viktor Nylund as saying.
More than 3,000 inmates, of which some 600 are children, are held at the Hasakah prison.
