A man, identified as 21-year-old Ali al-Ibrahim was arrested on April 11, 2024, by personnel from the Syrian Democratic Forces’ (SDF) Military Police at a checkpoint, known as al-Khattaf Checkpoint, in the east of his home city of Manbij in eastern rural Aleppo governorate. He was then taken to an SDF recruitment camp.
The Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) notes that Ali’s phone was seized from him during the 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 enforced disappearance case, 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 on the SDF to reveal the fate of thousands of people forcibly disappeared at its hands.
