A 30-year-old man, named as Husni Muhammad Sheikh Muhammad, from Midanki, which is administratively a part of Afrin city in the northern suburbs of Aleppo governorate, was arrested by Syrian National Army personnel in Izaz city in the northern suburbs of Aleppo governorate on December 2, 2021, and taken to an undisclosed location.
SNHR notes that no member of the civilian’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.
SNHR demands that financial and therapeutic compensation be provided to the victims and their families, as well as insisting on an end to all arbitrary arrests which aim to spread terror among Syrians and to the blackmail of families, and we further demand that the fates of thousands of people disappeared by all Armed Opposition factions be revealed as we have serious concern for the detainees’ wellbeing, particularly given the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic.
