After the false pardon, increase in number of people wanted for regime’s reserve, a list of about 700 persons arrive in Harasta at the Eastern Ghouta after other lists reached other areas
Rif Dimashq Province, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights learned that regime’s authorities are still issuing lists of names of people wanted to service in the ranks of regime’s reserve, where reliable sources confirmed to the Syrian Observatory that a list arrived in Harasta area at the Eastern Ghouta with the names of about 700 men and youths wanted for the reserve service, which led to discontent and resentment of the liar pardon issued by the regime and his presidency, about removing lists of names of people wanted for the reserve service, and pardoning those who did not serve this service during the past years, where the Eastern Ghouta is witnessed every now and then the arrival of such lists in addition to lists for the conscription service.
And the Syrian Observatory published yesterday that the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights learned that new lists have reached Daraa Province, which include names of new batches of people wanted to regime’s “reserve” service, where the lists arrived during the past 24 hours to the Yarmouk Basin area in the western countryside of Daraa, where the people are upset by regime’s attempts to keep no young man in Daraa province without being forced to join regime’s army; either as a mandatory service or reserve service, and in the same context the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored regime’s intelligence arresting a man in Da’el town in mid-countryside of Daraa, where he was taken to an unknown destination and no information about the reasons of the arrest until the moment. This comes within a series of arbitrary arrests by regime’s branches and security in Daraa Province, while the Syrian Observatory published on the 3rd of December 2018 that the Syrian regime continues to impose its security grip over Daraa Province, through the continuous arbitrary arrests in the Daraa Province through checkpoints of the regime forces and intelligence or through raids, and methods of arresting has not been limited to this extent, where the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights was informed by reliable sources that regime’s security branches arrested 2 former fighters of the factions, who chose to carry out “reconciliations and settlements”, they were arrested within the Personal Status Service in Daraa city, while they were there for their personal papers, and not far from the Personal Status Service in the immigration and passports building in Daraa, the Syrian regime’s intelligence arrested a man there and took him to an unknown destination, while the military security checkpoint at the entrance of Daraa city arrested a citizen for reasons remain unknown, while the regime’s checkpoints in various areas in Daraa and its countryside continue carrying out arrests searching for wanted people for compulsory or reserve service in regime’s army, which is pushing most of the youths and men to avoid going out and fear the arbitrary arrests there, and the Syrian Observatory monitored many arbitrary arrests in this regard since the alleged “pardon”, where the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights published on the 22nd of November 2018 that lists with names of people wanted to the reserve service in Yarmouk Basin at the western countryside of Daraa have arrived, and the regime forces began calling the wanted and arresting those who reject it. Reliable sources told the Syrian Observatory that the people wanted for to serve the compulsory and reserve service in Daraa Province fear of the enrolment, against the backdrop of their detention by the Syrian regime’s security branches and torturing them with severe beatings and various methods of torture before sending them to service in regime’s army.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights published on the 1st of December 2018 that November 2018 witnessed a major security campaign by regime’s security branches and its intelligence services in the east of Rif Dimashq, where they arrested tens of former fighters of the Factions from shelters in Adra city east of Damascus, and in the details obtained by the Syrian Observatory: about the security campaign of last month, the Syrian regime’s intelligence has arrested about 170 youths and men from shelters in Adra city, with the help of former faction fighters, who carried out “reconciliation and settlements”, where they told regime’s intelligence that there are tens of fighters who fought the regime before the factions took control of the Eastern Ghouta, and they managed to flee through crossings opened at the time by the regime forces under Russian support.
The Syrian Observatory learned from reliable sources that 170 people were initially taken to the security branches such as the Air Force in Harasta and the Military Security, where they were tortured and investigated about the places of mass graves of regime forces’ members, and about the places of weapons hidden and buried in cities and towns of the eastern Ghouta, the regime forces after the interrogation took tens of them of who were described as “not involved in terrorist acts” according to the Syrian regime; to the al-Driej military barracks north of the capital, to engage in the ranks of regime’s army and the gunmen loyal to it, while tens of them are still being held in detention and were imprisoned after they were “proven to be guilty in terrorist cases and acts” according to regime’s intelligence.