A woman, identified as 26-year-old Alif Haj Rasoul from Kafrdail village, administratively a part of Jendeires, in the northern suburbs of Aleppo governorate, was arrested on May 24, 2023, by personnel from the Syrian National Army’s (SNA) Military Police in Afrin city in northern Aleppo. She was taken to an undisclosed location.
The Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) notes that Alif’s phone was seized following her arrest, and she has not been allowed to contact her family.
SNHR is concerned that she may be subjected to torture in detention and may go on to become yet another forced disappearance case, with 85% of all those detained in Syria 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 armed opposition factions and the SNA to reveal the fates of thousands of people forcibly disappeared at their hands.
