The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights

Turkish-backed factions arrest citizens -including children- in Tal Abyad countryside, take them to their prisons

The Turkish-backed factions arrested today several citizens in Tal Abyad countryside, and according to sources of the “Syrian Observatory”, members of “Ahrar al-Sharqiyyah” faction of the “National Army,” arrested this afternoon nine civilians -including children and elders- from Zaidi village east of Sluk town, without pressing charges against them, and they were detained in a prison inside Sluk town in Tal Abyad countryside.

The Syrian Observatory monitored today that the Turkish-backed factions continue to carry out the most horrendous violations against civilians in the areas they recently took over in northeastern Syria after the military operation “Peace Spring”.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights documented a new incident in which one of the factions located in the city of Ras al-Ayn (Sari Kani) kidnapped a Kurdish young man with special needs, after returning to his home with his mother, the Syrian Observatory sources said that members of the faction tried to kill the young man but the intervention of the residents of the neighborhood prevented that from happening, then was kidnaped by the faction waiting for an unknown fate.

The Syrian Observatory sources added that the mother of the young man tried repeatedly through dignitaries close to the factions to release her son, but all her attempts failed, amid reports that the faction who kidnapped the young man was “Al-Hamza Division”.