A civil activist, identified as Ahmad Othman and known as Abu Bahr, was arrested on July 27, 2023, by personnel from Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham’s (HTS) security agency near his house in his home city of Idlib. He was taken to an undisclosed location.
The Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) notes that Ahmad’s phone was seized following his 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 yet another forcibly disappeared person, 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 for the fates of thousands of people forcibly disappeared at the hands of HTS to be revealed.
