Naser al-Abd al-Hamad was arrested on October 26, 2022, in his home village of Jazrat Boushams, which is administratively affiliated to al-Kasra town, western suburbs of Deir Ez-Zour governorate, by SDF servicemen who raided his home, after a picture appeared on social media showing him participating in blocking roads during an anti SDF demonstration in an other village in the western suburbs of Deir Ez-Zour governorate. He was taken to an undisclosed location.
SNHR notes that his family has not been informed of his detention, with the authorities confiscating his phone and preventing him from contacting his family. We are concerned that he may be subjected to torture in detention and may go on to be classified as forcibly disappeared, with 85% of all those detained falling into this category.
We call for the provision of reparations for the victims and their families, both materially and morally, and call on all parties to put an end to all arbitrary detentions whose only purpose is to spread mass fear and extort people.
We also call for revealing the fate of the thousands of persons forcibly disappeared by Syrian regime forces. We are seriously concerned for their fate.
Photo of Naser al-Hamad blocking a road during a demonstration in a village located in the western suburbs of Deir Ez-Zour.
