As part of the continuous violations against them, about 2100 civilians still detained and abducted by Turkish forces and the Syrian factions loyal to them in Afrin area
Aleppo Province, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: the factions operating within the Turkey-loyal “Olive Branch” operating room; continue all sorts of human rights violations against the Kurdish citizens, including the Kurdish and Arab citizens of Afrin who refused to be displaced and decided to stay in their areas, these factions continue their policy to displace them through kidnappings, threats, looting, stealing, repression, killing, and seizing their homes and property, the Syrian Observatory in turn continues to monitor the violations of these factions, where members of Ahrar al-Sharqiyyah faction took over a citizen’s house in Afrin city on the pretext that he is located in Aleppo, where they threatened his mother to kill her if she filed a complaint against them, also gunmen belong to factions in Afrin city kidnapped a teacher from her home in the city, they also kidnapped a man and his wife near Marata roundabout in Afrin city and took them to an unknown destination, where 2090 citizens were arrested of Afrin’s people including more than 3000 people who are still in detention, since the Turkish control over the are completely on the 19th of March 2018, while the rest were released after most of them paid ransom imposed by members of the “Olive Branch” Operation, sometimes it reached more than 10 million Syrian pounds, where the Syrian Observatory monitored more than once that the factions send audio or video clips to families of the abducted people, and impose money without bargaining, along with threats of liquidating their relatives if the desired amount of money was not paid, also the factions who were given authority by Turkey in the area -after international silence that has given power to Turkey in Afrin- carried out arrests against both genders, men and women, after these factions turned the kidnappings and ransom on charges the most prominent of which are “belonging to the Kurdish Forces and communicating and working for them”, where kidnapping for a ransom has become a popular trade adopted by most factions, in an attempt to collect the largest possible amount of money, and to clamp down on the remaining population in the region, and the SOHR monitored that the factions have transferred abductees to detention and custody centers made up of civilian homes that were seized and turned by them into headquarters for the pro-Turkey factions, which share influence and property in Afrin, and from time to time carry out looting and confiscation of property and funds.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights published on the 19th of July 2019 that the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights learned that a citizen died after an armed robbery carried out by unknown people against the citizen’s house on Jandairis road, where the man was strangled to death, this comes as a part of the chaos and insecurity in areas of control of the Turkey-loyal factions in Aleppo province, and in the same context, al-Jabha al-Shamiyyah faction arrested a man and his son in Ma’arasta al-Khatib village in Afrin countryside, on charges of belonging to YPG during their control of the area, and the Syrian Observatory published on the 18th of July 2019 that the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights learned that a force of the “Free Police” backed by Turkey raided Dikmdash village in Sharan township in Afrin countryside, and arrested at least 5 citizens and took them to unknown destination, also the fate of the woman who was abducted from Trenda checkpoint at the entrance to Afrin city is still unknown, while the Turkish Forces removed Bulbul camp which they set up about a year ago, but no information about the reasons and motives, where its contents and equipment were moved to unknown destination, while the pro Turkey factions arrested more than 28 people of the Kurdish citizens from different areas in Afrin and its countryside after the bombing that hit Trenda checkpoint at the entrance of the city, and the Syrian Observatory published on the 13th of July 2019 that the Turkish-backed factions of “Olive Branch”, have carried out a campaign of arrests within separated areas of the countryside of Afrin city, where they arrested more than 10 persons in Sheikh Hadid Township, Sharran, Maabatli and Jendires in Afrin countryside north-west of Aleppo, under various pretexts, in order to ask for ransoms in return for releasing them later.