A 22-year-old woman, named as Rouhat Nouri Ebou, from Qarzahil village which is administratively a part of Afrin city in the northern suburbs of Aleppo governorate, was arrested by Syrian National Army forces as she was passing through a checkpoint in the city on December 2, 2021 and taken to an undisclosed location.
SNHR notes that no member of the woman’s family was informed of her arrest or whereabouts, with her phone being confiscated, preventing her from contacting her family. SNHR fears that she will be subjected to torture and ultimately classified as forcibly ‘disappeared’, like approximately 85 percent of all detained persons in Syria.
SNHR demands that financial and therapeutic compensation be provided to the victims and their families, as well as insisting on an end to all arbitrary arrests which aim to spread terror among Syrians and to the blackmail of families, and we further demand that the fates of thousands of people disappeared by all Armed Opposition factions be revealed as we have serious concern for the detainees’ wellbeing, particularly given the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic.
