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"We would like to visit other places of detention -- this was the purpose of the discussions I had with the authorities," he said at the end of a five-day visit to Syria.
Asked about conditions in detention centres, he said the ICRC does not comment publicly on this.
UN investigators accused the Syrian regime at the beginning of the month of "extermination" in its jails and detention centres.
Thousands of detainees have been killed while being held by different sides in Syria's brutal conflict since the violence began nearly five years ago, the UN commission of inquiry on Syria said in its latest report.
Maurer said he hoped the ceasefire due to take effect at 2200 GMT would open up to the ICRC regions that were previously inaccessible because of conflict.
"The most urgent thing is to increase humanitarian aid... Humanitarian deliveries must not depend on political negotiations but must be allowed to continue and increase regardless of any truce or ceasefire," he said.
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Asked about conditions in detention centres, he said the ICRC does not comment publicly on this.
UN investigators accused the Syrian regime at the beginning of the month of "extermination" in its jails and detention centres.
Thousands of detainees have been killed while being held by different sides in Syria's brutal conflict since the violence began nearly five years ago, the UN commission of inquiry on Syria said in its latest report.
Maurer said he hoped the ceasefire due to take effect at 2200 GMT would open up to the ICRC regions that were previously inaccessible because of conflict.
"The most urgent thing is to increase humanitarian aid... Humanitarian deliveries must not depend on political negotiations but must be allowed to continue and increase regardless of any truce or ceasefire," he said.
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