Adel Hamad al-Sway’i, the imam of a mosque in his home town of al-Sosa in the eastern suburbs of Deir Ez-Zour governorate, was arrested on October 23, 2022 by SDF servicemen in a raid on his home in the town. He was taken to an undisclosed location.
SNHR notes that Adel’s phone was seized and he was not 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 enforced disappearance case, with 85% of all those detained 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 revealing the fate of the thousands of persons forcibly disappeared by the SDF.
