A child, named as Isam Muhammad Eisa, born in 2008, from Qatama village which is administratively a part of Afrin city in the northern suburbs of Aleppo governorate, was abducted on November 23, 2021, for conscription by Syrian Democratic Forces near the Martyr Qahraman School in al Sheikh Maqsoud neighborhood in Aleppo city and taken to a conscription camp.
SNHR notes that no member of the child’s family was informed of his arrest and that he was prevented from contacting his family, who are not allowed to visit him. SNHR fears that he will be forced to engage directly and indirectly in military operations, and confirms that around 136 children are still detained for forced conscription in the SDF’s camps.
