A man from al Baghouz town in the eastern suburbs of Deir Ez-Zour suburbs, named as Hamdan Ramadan al Daoud, was arrested by gunmen affiliated with Syrian Democratic Forces on August 27, 2021, during a raid on his home in the town and taken to an undisclosed location.
SNHR notes that no member of Hamdan’s family was informed of his arrest or whereabouts, while he was prevented from contacting his family. SNHR fears that he will be subjected to torture and ultimately classified as forcibly ‘disappeared’, like approximately 85 percent of all detained persons in Syria.
We can confirm that at least 3,796 Syrian citizens are still detained or forcibly disappeared in the SDF’s detention centers, constituting a grave threat to the detainees’ wellbeing, given the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic.
