A media activist & photographer for Orient News Channel, named as Saleh Haj Yousef, from Ariha city in the southern suburbs of Idlib governorate, was arrested by the Public Prosecution of salvation government affiliated with Hay’at Tahrir al Sham on October 4, 2020, as they summoned him to the building of Public Prosecution in Idlib city on the background of his criticism of an employee of the Civil Registry of the salvation on his personal ‘Facebook’ account and taken to an undisclosed location.
SNHR can confirm that at least 2,116 Syrian citizens are still detained or forcibly disappeared in the HTS’s detention centers, constituting a grave threat to the detainees’ wellbeing given the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic.
