Abuses against Afrin’s residents continue: the Turkish-backed factions continue to clamp down on the Kurds by imposing royalties

Abuses against Afrin’s residents continue: the Turkish-backed factions continue to clamp down on the Kurds by imposing royalties

Aleppo province, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights learned today that members of “Ahrar al-Sham” faction imposed about half a million Syrian pounds, on Mukhtar of Hajilar village, who is in turn imposed on the villagers to pay him, while the Turkish-backed factions continued to carry out abuses against the people of Afrin, through arrests and imposing royalties, these continuous violations coincide with difficult humanitarian situation in Afrin city and its countryside.

The Syrian Observatory has just published that members of the civilian police of the Turkish-backed factions raided a citizen’s home in Ashkan village west of Jandairis of Afrin area yesterday, and took him to their prisons in the area without knowing the reasons for the arrest.

The Syrian Observatory monitored on the 7th of December 2019 that the areas under control of the Turkish forces and their loyal factions in Aleppo countryside, are still witnessing security chaos with the continuation of kidnapping, killing and armed robberies.

In this context, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored the finding of the body of a citizen woman killed by gunmen after being kidnapped early this month in Azaz city north of Aleppo, and she is from Deir Al-Sawan village of Shirawa Township.

According to information obtained by SOHR; the woman was found dead with marks of gunshots on her body in Qastal Jendo village in Sharran Township east of Afrin city, without information about the killing motives and reasons so far.