A man named as Athad Ismail, from Midanki village which is administratively a part of Afrin city in the northern suburbs of Aleppo governorate, was arrested by the Syrian National Army during a raid on the village on December 2, 2020, and taken to an undisclosed location.
SNHR notes that no member of Athad’s family was informed of his arrest, with the phone being confiscated, preventing him from contacting his family. SNHR fears that he will be subjected to torture and ultimately classified as forcibly ‘disappeared’ like approximately 85 percent of the individuals detained.
SNHR notes that about 3,244 Syrian citizens are still detained or forcibly disappeared in the Armed Opposition’s detention centers, constituting a grave threat to their wellbeing given the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic.
