Published on 6/19/2026
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Last update: 20:23 (Mecca time)
The confessions of 6 former military doctors who worked at Tishreen Military Hospital in Damascus sparked widespread interaction among activists on social media platforms.
The story spread after the Syrian Ministry of Justice published details of a crime dating back to 2019, which involved stealing a liver from a detainee in Branch 215 of Military Intelligence and transplanting it into the body of an officer from the Republican Guard.
Investigations showed that the defendants received orders from the Director of the Medical Services Department, Major General Doctor Ammar Suleiman, a colleague of the deposed Bashar al-Assad while he was studying at the Faculty of Medicine. His name was linked to numerous violations, including transporting the bodies of detainees, and the United States and the European Union included him on sanctions lists.
The six doctors and nursing staff participated in stealing the liver and transplanting it into the body of a regime officer, despite their knowledge that the patient would die immediately after this vital organ was removed from his body, which transformed the crime from organ theft into systematic premeditated murder.
The episode (6/19/2026) of the “Shabakat” program highlighted the difference in tweets between anger, shock, and demands for accountability, as some focused on the criminal dimension and considered it premeditated murder, others criticized the medical team and described it as “stupid,” while others demanded the prosecution of everyone involved in these violations.
Tweeter Jihad described the crime as turning into premeditated murder and tweeted:
The crime is no longer just theft, it is a premeditated murder because the doctors know that the patient will die immediately after removing this important organ. How hideous and cruel they are!!
As for tweeter Hani, he focused his tweet on the professional level of doctors and wrote:
In addition to being butcher doctors, they are also stupid, 6 doctors and nurses, and they repeated the operation twice and it failed, proof that they entered the university by cheating, because we all know in Syria why people miss solved baccalaureate questions.
For her part, tweeter Dounia mocked those who blame Syrians for their revolution or demand amnesty for criminals by saying:
Are there those who blame the Syrians for their revolution? Are there those demanding amnesty for the perpetrators of crimes? Did they witness this crime? We need more than 100 years to talk about the crimes of the deposed Bashar al-Assad and his regime, and every day a crime emerges that is more heinous than the one before it.
In turn, the tweeter Mahmoud Qassem linked the ugliness of doctors to the ugliness of the rest of the regime’s apparatus and wrote:
If doctors were so hideous, cruel, and criminal during the era of Bashar’s regime, how were the investigators, security branches, and jailers?
As for tweeter Abu Yasser, he demanded fair accountability for everyone involved in the crime and tweeted:
Are these doctors or butchers? Did they live among us? Are they human? We demand fair accountability and the maximum penalties for every doctor, nurse, or even workers. They must be held accountable because they covered up the crime.
In a related context, the Public Prosecutor in Syria, Hassan Al-Turba, announced the filing of a public prosecution case against those accused of the crime of “premeditated murder” in addition to the torture charge. The case will be moved to the referral judge and then to the criminal case to try symbols of the deposed regime and the perpetrators of violations against the Syrian people.
