Regime’s security branches continue their abusive operations in the Eastern Ghouta and arrest tens of “Rahman Corps” fighters who had “reconciliations and settlements”
Rif Dimashq Province, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights learned from several reliable sources that regime’s security branches carried out raids in the cities and towns of the Eastern Ghouta, and arrested tens of youths and men, and in details obtained by the Syrian Observatory: patrols of the Air Intelligence Branch raided several houses in the towns of Saqba, Hamoryah, and Beit Sawa, and they arrested several people and took them to the branch of the Air Force Intelligence in Harasta city east of Damascus, and the security services arrested 2 youths at the outskirts of Maliha town south of the Eastern Ghouta, specifically, at al-Noor military checkpoint, which separates the Eastern Ghouta and the capital Damascus, and they were arrested while they were heading to the capital Damascus, sources informed the Syrian Observatory that most of the detainees were previously within the ranks of the Rahman Corps faction, where more than 35 people were arrested during the last few hours and days, and in the same context in the Douma city in the Eastern Ghouta; the Syrian Observatory learned that the “State Security branch” arrested 2 young residents of the city after families of members of the regime forces filed lawsuits against them on charges of “intentional killing of their children during the clash that took place in the area over the past years.”
And the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights published on the 11th of May 2019 that hundreds of young men and boys of Rif Dimashq who were former fighters of the factions during their control of the area and subsequently carried out “reconciliation and settlement” after the regime forces controlled it; are now on the fighting fronts alongside the regime forces in the northern and northwestern countryside of Hama, in addition to mountains of the coast, after regime’s authorities pulled them out of their military barracks on several stages during the last weeks, where the Syrian Observatory documented the killing of 13 fighters of the “reconciliation and settlement” factions of the people of al-Zakyah, al-Kiswah, and Douma in Rif Dimashq, since the beginning of the heaviest escalation within “de-escalation” area.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights published on the 30th of April 2019 that reliable sources confirmed to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights that the regime’s intelligence services have transferred tens of detainees of the people of the Eastern Ghouta to Sednaya Military Prison, after interrogation had been accomplished in the security branches after arresting them on various charges after the regime forces had imposed their control over the area and after the exit of the military factions from the Eastern Ghouta of Damascus and evacuating them to the Syrian North, and in the details obtained by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights; the detainees who were taken to Sednaya Prison, were detained in Al-Khateeb branch in the capital Damascus, and the Air Force Intelligence’s branch in Harasta city, and both branches are affiliated to the Air Force Intelligence, where the number of detainees exceeded 100, most of them were former fighters in the rebel and Islamic factions which fought against the regime forces in the Eastern Ghouta, and they were arrested although they struck “reconciliation and settlement deals” and received guarantees that they would not be targeted by the security branches, where they had been transferred to Sednaya after being questioned in the security branches and after proving the charges directed to them of engaging in clashes against the regime forces and gunmen loyal to them in the past years during the opposition factions’ control over the Eastern Ghouta.