A man, identified as Mahmoud Ammar al-Zu’bi from al-Msaifra town in eastern rural Daraa governorate, was arrested on October 15, 2023, in al-Rahma Restaurant in Daraa city by personnel from the Syrian regime’s Miliary Intelligence Directorate, and taken to an undisclosed location.
The arrest was carried out without any court-issued legal warrant being presented. Mahmoud’s family was not informed of his arrest, while his phone was seized, and he has not been allowed to contact his family or a lawyer since then.
The Syrian Network for Human Rights (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 percent of all those detained falling into this category.
We call for the provision of both material and moral reparations for Nagham and all other victims of such detentions and their families, and call on all parties to end all arbitrary detentions, whose only purpose is to spread mass fear and extort people.
We also call on the regime to reveal the fate of thousands of people forcibly disappeared in its detention centers. We are seriously concerned about their fate.
