Popular discontent in Afrin after killing a kidnaped person from Sharan Township by gunmen in areas controlled by factions loyal to Turkey as violations escalate against those who refused to displace of their areas

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored a great public discontent among people of Afrin city, against the backdrop of the killing a kidnapped man from Sharan Township by gunmen in Azaz city in the northern countryside of Aleppo, after the kidnappers demanded a large amount of money to release him, where residents of Afrin city or the rest of them who stay within their areas and refused the displacement after the Turkish forces and their loyal factions controlled their city and countryside, and the people have become unable to exercise their most basic rights, which is to live peacefully, where the violations of the factions loyal to Turkey chase them in their homes, like arrests, beatings, torture, and insults, in addition to their livelihood from theft, robbery, taxation, and royalties, to kidnappings and looting by the factions of “Olive Branch and Euphrates Shield,” and even by people whose profession is kidnapping through gangs scattered in the northern countryside of Aleppo, and the Syrian Observatory published yesterday that the violations of the pro-Turkey factions are still continuing against the residents of Afrin city and its countryside, where the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights documented the death of a citizen from Sharran Township in the countryside of Afrin city in the north-western countryside of Aleppo, by gunmen from Azaz city about 2 weeks after he was kidnapped with his 11-year-old son as well as another citizen, and the body of the citizen was found dead with marks of torture on it in the area between the villages of Qastal Jendo and Arab Wayran in Sharran Township in Afrin countryside, and in the details obtained by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights; they were kidnapped by an armed group in Azaz city on the 13th of May 2019, and the kidnappers asked for a ransom amounting to 100000 US dollars each in return for releasing them, and this incident comes days after the armed group threatened to kill the kidnapped persons and hang their heads in the roundabout of Azaz city in the northern countryside of Aleppo, in the case that their relatives refused to pay the ransom, and the killed person was with his son and the other man in Azaz city for the purpose of trading and buying some items.

And the Syrian Observatory published on the 21st of May 2019, that violations are still continuing against the residents of Afrin city and its countryside, where the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored that gunmen affiliated to the factions of “Olive Branch” kidnapped an old man from Jendires town in the countryside of Afrin city, and sent a video to his family shows the torturing he was subjected to, while the kidnapper asked for a ransom amounting to USD 100000 in return for releasing him, and the Syrian Observatory published on the 19th of May 2019, that the violations continue against people of Afrin city and countryside by the Turkish Forces and factions of the “Euphrates Shield” supported by them, where the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights learned that the Turkish Forces prevented people of Darwish village in Raju Township in the northwestern countryside of Aleppo; from returning to the village after factions of “Euphrates Shield” loyal to Turkey controlled it, and set up a military base in the village and made it a restricted military area, and the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights published on the 17th of May 2019 that the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights learned that factions from the Turkish-backed “Olive Branch” Operation -which controls Afrin city and its countryside in the northwestern countryside of Aleppo-, gathered the Mukhtars of Midanah villages of Raju township, requiring the Kurdish farmers through them to obtain a “permit” to harvest their land, while sources told the Syrian Observatory that the Arab farmers who have been displaced to the area were not asked to obtain a “permit” to harvest crops within the lands they had seized and belonged to citizens of Afrin; who were displaced to places outside of their areas, and the Syrian Observatory published yesterday that the remaining residents of Afrin city and its countryside continue to suffer, those who refused to displace after the Turkish Forces and their loyal Syrian factions controlled area located to the northwest of Aleppo about 14 months ago, these sufferings are embodied in lawlessness of the “Olive Branch” factions against the citizens, their property, and even their lives, where the violations by those factions continue all over Afrin and its countryside, and the Syrian Observatory monitored new cases of violations by the “Blood Branch” factions, where gunmen from Azaz city abducted a child and 2 men from the people of Jandairis in Afrin countryside, then the kidnappers sent a text message to the wife of one of the kidnapped persons demanding them to pay $100000 in exchange for releasing her husband on the pretext of “belonging to the party earlier and working for it”, while members from Soqur al-Shamal faction within the villages of Darwish, Sa’arin Jakka, and Droqelyou in Afrin countryside, the randomly cut olive trees in these villages, as part of their trade in firewood, where they sell the one ton at a price between 12000 to 15000 Syrian Lira, not to mention stealing the crops of grape leaf, also the Syrian Observatory learned that members of al-Hamzat faction which controls Shankal village in Bulbul Township, they rent the grape fields in the village for investors from outside the area for amounts of money up to $11000 US dollars, and they force the villagers to do the harvest.