Salama Zaki al-Salama, a university student studying civil engineering at Aleppo Free University, from Jarjanaz town in eastern rural Idlib governorate, was arrested on July 23, 2023, by personnel from Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) at a checkpoint in Armanaz area in northern rural Idlib governorate while returning home from al-Andalus Hospital, where he was receiving treatment, in Sarmada city in rural Idlib governorate. He was taken to an HTS detention center in Kafr Takharim city in rural Idlib governorate.
The Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) notes that Salama’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 forcibly disappeared person, with 85% of all those detained in Syria falling into this category.
We call for the provision of both material and moral reparations for the victims and their families, 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 fates of thousands of people forcibly disappeared at the hands HTS to be revealed.
