Forty-year-old Salah Jallou, a barber from Deka village, which is administratively a part of Afrin city in in northwestern Aleppo governorate, was arrested on March 29, 2023, by members of the Syrian National Army’s (SNA) military police in a raid on his workplace in the city’s al-Sarafees Street, and taken to an undisclosed location.
The Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) notes that Salah’s phone was seized, and he was denied the opportunity to contact his family. We are concerned he may be subjected to torture and may go on to become yet another forcibly disappeared person, as with 85 percent of all those detained in Syria.
SNHR calls for compensating the victim materially and morally, and for ending all arbitrary detentions which only aim to spread fear and panic among people and extort families. We also call on the SNA and all armed opposition factions to reveal the fate of thousands of individuals forcibly disappeared by their forces.
