A man from Darnaj village in the eastern suburbs of Deir Ez-Zour suburbs, named as Ibrahim Turki al Fandi, was arrested in the village’s livestock market on September 13, 2021, by gunmen affiliated with Syrian Democratic Forces and taken to an undisclosed location.
SNHR notes that no member of Ibrahim’s family was informed of his arrest or whereabouts, with his phone being confiscated, preventing him 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 3,817 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.
