On charge of various accusations…the regime’s security bodies continue to carry out arrests against the residents who remained in the east of the capital Damascus represented by arresting 2 citizen women
Damascus Province – The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored that the regime’s security bodies have arrested 2 citizen women from the area of Barzeh Housing, in the eastern neighborhoods of the capital Damascus, where they were taken to an unknown destination, and local sources talked about the reasons for this arrest and that it came as these women was in contact with displaced members of their relatives in the Syrian North, as a part of the continued arrests in the east of the capital Damascus and its Eastern Ghouta, where the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights published on the 20th of September 2018, that the Syrian regime’s security has sent recently a warning through elders and dignitaries of the “reconciliation and settlement” to youths of the Eastern Ghouta who have carried out “reconciliation and settlement” to join the compulsory service of the new recruits, those who passed their recruitment day, and people defected of the regime forces, after the six months period is almost finished, which was provided by the Russians as a guarantee to those who have decided to stay, and the security services have threatened to start an arrest operation and forcefully withdrawing those who pass their conscription date, the sources added that hundreds of youths have been joining the compulsory service since days, and these warnings come despite the pressures, violations, and abuses carried out by the regime in front of the Russian Forces, who did not move to show commitment to the guarantees they provided for the agreement of the Eastern Ghouta and the people who remained in it and accepted the Russian conditions of settlement, while the citizens fear more violations when the Russian guarantee period expires.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights also published on the 17th of September 2018, that it obtained information from a number of reliable sources, which confirmed that the regime forces carried out a campaign of arrests targeting tens of citizens in the Eastern Ghouta of Damascus, and in the details monitored by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights; the regime’s security forces have carried out a wide-scale raids in Douma city, which used to be controlled by Jaysh Al-Islam and its former stronghold, and the raids and searching operations today, Monday the 17th of September 2018, lasted for hours, during which more than 30 persons were arrested, including young men of those who are wanted for the conscription service, and the detainees were taken to unknown destinations, and this campaign comes hours after the regime forces arrested 5 persons of those who returned from the Syrian North, and tried to return to the Eastern Ghouta of Damascus, where they were taken to unknown destinations, and the Syrian Observatory also published on the 13th of September 2018, that the Eastern Ghouta of Damascus witnesses arrests by the regime’s intelligence, at escalated pace, and these arrests targeted citizen women, people work in medical fields and opponents to the regime who formerly held “reconciliations and settlements” with the regime forces, after a displacement agreement according which tens of thousands of citizens and fighters have displaced with their families to the Syrian North, and in the details obtained by the Syrian Observatory; the regime’s intelligence have arrested 7 citizen women from Saqba and Hamouriyyah cities, worked previously in the medical field in the medical centers in the Eastern Ghouta of Damascus, where they were transported to the capital Damascus, and taken to one of the branches of the regime’s intelligence, in order to question them about the details of their work and the period when they served in the medical centers, and the SOHR monitored in the past 72 hours that the regime forces arrested 3 citizen women, as well as arresting more than 75 others from Douma, Saqba, Hamouriyyah, Mesraba, Zamalka, Ein Tarma, Hazza and other areas in the eastern Ghouta, and the Syrian Observatory monitored that the arrests are concentrated during the evening, where the regime’s intelligence raids the houses of the residents and arrests them after searching the houses, the SOHR also monitored a security campaign by the regime forces in Al-Tal city, in Rif Dimashq, where blocks were sat up and raids and searching processes in houses and shops were carried out, in search for wanted people of those who defaulted the compulsory military service, and the SOHR monitored that about 30 boys were arrested and taken to the barracks of the regime’s army, and the Syrian Observatory also published days ago that areas which has witnessed “reconciliation and settlements” with the regime forces in the Eastern Ghouta, Eastern Qalamoun, Daraa, and others, are still witnessing the continuation of the security operations of raids and arrests by regime’s security forces on various pretexts despite the “settlements” in these areas, where the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights continues to monitor these operations, which take place almost daily in the shadow of a media blackout of it and of the suffering of the remaining residents in the “reconciliation” areas mentioned above, where Douma city in the Eastern Ghouta is witnessing an alert situation by the regime forces and its security branches where the 6 months are almost expired, which is the period of time provided by the Russians as a guarantee to those who decided to stay and to make “reconciliation and settlements” to join the compulsory service for the new recruits, those how passed their conscripting date, and those who defected from the regime forces, where Douma is witnessing an alert of the Syrian regime’s military police and state security branch, looking for wanted people in conjunction with carrying out raid operations since yesterday, Thursday, also the Syrian Observatory learned that the security branches have established lists in names of people wanted for the mandatory service to join the security points in the Eastern Ghouta in a maximum of 7 days, while the regime forces arrested more than 20 persons of al-Dumayr, who are former fighters of the factions who carried out “settlements” in the area, and they were taken to an unknown destination.