On January 28, 2023, a 28-year-old woman named Shadiya al-Ali and a 15-year-old girl named Duaa al-Hasan, from al-Ibeidat village in the eastern suburbs of Aleppo governorate were arrested by Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) members in raids on their homes in the village. They were taken to an undisclosed location.
The Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) notes that neither of the two detainees’ families were notified of their arrest, while their phones were seized following their arrest, and they have not been allowed to contact their families. SNHR is concerned that they may be subjected to torture in detention and may go on to become yet more enforced disappearance cases, with 85% of all those detained 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 fate of the thousands of persons forcibly disappeared by the SDF to be revealed.
