Bland Mohammad Mulla Ismail, a member of the local municipal council run by the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP), from al-Malekiya city in the northeastern suburbs of Hasaka governorate, born in 1984, was arrested in the city’s market on December 27, 2022 by Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) personnel. He was taken to an undisclosed location.
The Syrian Network for Human Rights notes that Bland’s phone was seized following his arrest and he has not been allowed to contact his family. SNHR is concerned that he may be subjected to torture in detention and may go on to become yet another enforced disappearance case, 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 the fate of the thousands of persons forcibly disappeared by the SDF to be revealed.
