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General Command of the Army and Armed Forces                                  extremely confidential

Intelligence Division  Section/branch 228

Number: 86650/5ت [t]

Date 9/6/2013 [9 June]

To the Military Police Branch in Damascus

During the investigation with the arrested … [details on him] [--] His mother [--], born in 1976, Damascus countryside, al-Tal [--] also his residence, Al-Saraya neighborhood - opposite municipality [--] [end details] ...his health deteriorated and  was taken to the military hospital 601 And on 2/6/2013 he died as a result of the cessation of his heart and breathing. His body was deposited in the mentioned hospital morgue under the number 0/2040.

- Advise as to examine and bury his body in a known location in coordination with the Office of Burial, in accordance with the decision of the National Security Bureau , content of section/Branch /248/ note No. / 8 / 248/14655 / Dated 22/2/2012  Sent to you at the time , and notify us (probably asking for notification after the burial) Attachment: A ‎Sealed envelope with the ID of the Mentioned person

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 * Section/branch 291/b, reference to your letter No. 56122 dated 7/6/2013, for view
 * Section/branch 248 /, Reference to the branch 291 note / b mentioned above, for view
 * Section/branch 294, Reference to branch 291 / b mentioned above, for view

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القيادة العامة للجيش و القوات المسلحة                            سري للغاية شعبة المخابرات الفرع 227 الرقم:86650/ 5ت التاريخ 5/6/2013 إلى فرع الشرطة العسكرية بدمشق

خلال التحقيق مع الموقوف لدينا (___________) والدته (___) مواليد 1976 ريف دمشق التل (___) ومقيم فيها حي السرايا - مقابل البلدية (___) ساء وضعه الصحي فتم إسعافه إلى مشفى 601 العسكري و بتاريخ 2/6/2013 توفي المذكور نتيجة توقف قلبه وتنفسه وأودعت جثته في براد المشفى الذكور برقم /0/2040 /248/ -يرجى الاطلاع و دفن جثته بمكان معلوم بالتنسيق مع مكتب دفن الموتى و ذلك عملا بقرار مكتب الأمن الوطني مضمون كتاب الفرع رقم /8/248/14655/ ق تاريخ 22/2/2012 المرسل إليكم في حينه و إشعارنا. ربطا: مغلف ممهور بالشمع الأحمر بداخله بطاقة شخصية عائدة للمذكور نسخة إلي: الفرع 291/ب إشارة لكتابكم رقم /56122/ تاريخ 7/6/2013 للاطلاع الفرع 248/ إشارة لكتاب الفرع 291/ب أعلاه للاطلاع الفرع 294 إشارة لكتاب الفرع 291/ب أعلاه للاطلاع (o)عدد النسخ نسخة رقم

Transcription credit: Amin2511 on Twitter: https://twitter.com/amin251/status/1046432537076215810 --Caustic Logic (talk) 05:46, 8 October 2018 (UTC)

Text Analysis:
This document doesn't offer an obvious problem. It sounds like that is a detainee, of theirs - الموقوف لدينا (ph: almawquf ladayna) = arrestee in our custody, or our detainee, etc. and with all text present, it's clearly the same man who dies after problems during an "investigation with him."

The exact meaning of التحقيق (ph: altahqiq) might be debatable; Google translate gives investigation and 2 alternates: realization, attainment. Not suggested: interrogation, coercion, torture, extermination, etc. "With" is clear, suggesting active participation 9as in questioning). Torture just to be cruel is done TO people. But this session is presumed to include torture, since he died, and considering the supposed photographs of him (see below). But if so, even in this top-secret internal memo, they took care not to mention it. And it still seems there was never an order found relating to torture, except a few saying it has happened in fairly mild forms, and it has to stop.

So for whatever reason, they say he died on the 2nd, and exactly a week later, on the 9th, the order is put out to photograph and bury him. It comes in response to branch 291 sending some kind of letter on his case the day before, maybe in response to one earlier from 227... unclear what these are about and what role it has in the delay.

Why a delay of exactly seven days? Maybe they have a policy of waiting a week to try and contact family, get the body back to them. Maybe if there's no luck after that, they document and bury the guy. If so, all such cases should be 7 days later. There's one other to compare it to, and he's held 6 days. Why wait a week to bury your secret detainees?

Locale: From the details given, he was perhaps from Al-Tal (just north of Damascus) but lived in "Al-Saraya ( السرايا ) neighborhood - opposite ( مقابل ) municipality" - there's an old mountain spring called Ain Saraya ( عين سرايا ) just outside Zabadany and Madaya farms, 20 km NW of Al-Tal labeled on Wikimapia - but no "neighborhoods" so labeled anywhere near Damascus and al-Tal. No place called Mqabl - that appears a lot, to describe places opposite / across the road from other places. --Caustic Logic (talk) 05:46, 8 October 2018 (UTC)