Two men, identified as Fawzi Mustafa Hussein and Rashid Sidou Koulin, were arrested on May 2, 2024, by personnel from the Syrian National Army’s (SNA) Military Police who raided their houses in their home village of Ashkan, administratively a part of Afrin city, in northwestern Aleppo governorate. The two, who were arrested over accusations of working with the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), were then taken to an undisclosed location.
The Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) notes that their phones have been seized, and they have not been allowed to contact their family. We are concerned that they may be subjected to torture in detention and may go on to become another 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 of such detentions and for 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 all armed opposition factions/SNA to reveal the fate of thousands of people forcibly disappeared at its hands.
