Caesar Reveals His identity: I Demand the Lifting of the Sanctions

The man who leaked tens of thousands of photos and documents documenting the ousted regime’s crimes against the detainees revealed his identity for the first time. He is Farid al-Mezhan, Head of the Judicial Evidence Registry of the Damascus Military Police. He is from Dara ‘a. He has been hiding for years under the name Caesar.

In an interview with Al Jazeera, al-Mezhan who contributed to the development of the “Caesar Act”, which provided for the imposition of sanctions on the deposed regime, recounted traumatic details about the murders and torture committed by the regime in the prisons, and about his journey in smuggling more than 27 thousand photos of Syrian detainees killed under torture.
Al-Mezhan talked about collecting evidence and data that he leaked outside Syria, which formed the core of the Caesar Act files, explaining that the orders to photograph and document the regime’s crimes were issued from the highest levels of power to ensure that the murders were actually carried out, and that the leaders of the security services were expressing their absolute loyalty to the criminal regime through pictures of the bodies of the victims of arrest.
He pointed out that the first filming of the bodies of the detainees was in the morgue of the Tishreen military hospital in Damascus for demonstrators from Daraa in March 2011, while the places of collecting and filming the bodies of the victims of the arrest were in the morgue of the Tishreen and Harasta military hospitals, in addition to converting the parking garage at the Mezzeh Military Hospital into a body collection yard to be filmed as the death toll increased.
According to Al-Mezhan, the number of bodies at the beginning of the Syrian Revolution ranged from 10 to 15 per day, later reaching 50 per day.
While the regime’s officials carry out systematic extortion operations against thousands of detainees ‘ families without giving any information.