The regime’s security services seize 16 houses of displaced people from areas south of Damascus
Damascus Province – The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights learned that the regime’s security services have seized the houses of tens of displaced people from the south of Damascus during the recent week, and they informed their inhabitants that they have to evacuate them in order to be turn into property of the regime, local sources told the Syrian Observatory that patrols of the political security branch of the security services, have been making security survey of the houses in the towns of the south of Damascus since the beginning of last week, and that they seize the houses that belong to members of the opposition factions or citizens displaced to the Syrian North after they refused the settlement deals with the regime forces, where the local sources confirmed that the number of seized houses reached 16, owned by persons some of whom are from the families of Yalda, Babbila and Beit Saham in the south of Damascus, where the security services informed the inhabitants of these houses that they have to evacuate the house before the 1st of August 2019, without taking any furniture belong to the house’s owners.
And the SOHR published on the 17th of July 2019, that regime’s security branches have confiscated homes of tens of displaced people in the Eastern Ghouta since the beginning of last month, and closed most of them completely after expelling its residents and stealing their furniture, and in the details obtained by the Syrian Observatory: patrols of the military security branch of the regime forces raided more than 70 houses in various towns in the Eastern Ghouta, which are owned by members of the opposition factions and other civilians who were displaced to the Syrian north, and local sources confirmed to the Syrian Observatory that security patrols expelled about 15 families from their homes in Saqba town after warnings them to evacuate in just one week, and imposed control on them after confiscating all their contents, while military security ordered about 20 houses to be evacuated in Hazza town and 10 others in Kafr Batna town, and several houses of displaced people in the towns of Beit Sawa, Ain Tarma, and Hamouriyah during the same operation.
And the SOHR published on the 23rd of July 2019the towns of (Yalda – Babbila – Beit Saham) in the south of Damascus, witnessed in the recent days, a campaign of arrests by the regime’s security services that targeted many of the “reconciliations and settlement” members in addition to arresting relatives of residents of those who are present in the Syrian North, and in the details obtained by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights; the arrests included a number of members of the 4th Division of the regime forces, more than a year after they had their security situations settled, and after joining the ranks of the Division, also patrols affiliated to Felastin Branch, carried out a campaign of raids that targeted a former commander in the ranks of the opposition factions, and who assumed the task of recruiting the young men in the ranks of the 4th Division, after the evacuation of the factions to the Syrian North, the campaign also targeted a former group leader in Ahrar Al-Sham Islamic movement during the faction’s control over areas in the south of Damascus, who refused to leave to the Syrian North in return for having his situation settled, and stayed in the south of Damascus, the campaign also targeted one of the residents on charge of being in contact with one of his sons who is in Idlib province north of Syria, it is noteworthy that the regime forces and gunmen loyal to them imposed their control over the towns Yalda, Babbila and Beit Saham in May 2018, after an agreement with the armed opposition factions led to their safe evacuation to the Syrian North with Russian guarantee, and the SOHR published on the 23rd of June 2019, that the regime forces are continuing to prevent the locals of Jubar neighborhood of Damascus from entering their houses, although more than a year has been passed since they imposed their control over the area and the entire cities and towns of the Eastern Ghouta, and local sources informed the SOHR, that the locals of Jubar neighborhood go to some officers in the regime forces and their members who are responsible for the area, in order to facilitate their entry to the neighborhood to check the conditions of their houses for few minuets, in return for sums of money varying between 10000 and 15000 SYL, also the residents are prevented from entering their houses unless being accompanied by members of the regime forces, also they are prevented from walking around in the neighborhood or using cameras while being inside it, it is noteworthy that the regime forces imposed their control over Jubar neighborhood and the cities of the Eastern Ghouta in early 2018, after battles which lasted for months, and which ended with forced displacement deals against the opposition factions and those who reject the agreement, to the Syrian North.
And the SOHR published on the 22nd of June 2019, that the Syrian Observatory learned from local resources that the 4th Division of the regime forces -which controls Muadamiyat al-Sham city in the west of Rif Dimashq- imposed security clearances on the city’s residents and displaced people, in order to be allowed to exit and enter the city, under the risk of accountability and expelling the violators, the sources confirmed to the Syrian Observatory that the security office of the 4th Division prevents the entry and exit of the city’s residents and displaced people without the security clearance issued by it, in addition to the suffering of the displaced people in getting back to the security branches and issuing the approval which will enable them to move, it worth mentioning that residents of the city and the displaced people who chose the “reconciliation and settlement” with the regime forces during the displacement agreement in 2016; had received security approvals that allow them to get out and in the city, and the number of displaced people in Muadamiyat al-Sham is estimated to be about 45000 people from various Syrian provinces that witnessed military operations.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights published on the 17th of June 2019 that the security branches of the regime forces carried out an arrest operation in Aqraba town in the south of Rif Dimashq, where they arrested 10 people the most notable of them is the former local council president, who was active during the opposition factions’ control of towns south of Rif Damascus, in addition to the arrest of 9 former members of Jaysh al-Islam who carried out “reconciliation and settlements”, against the backdrop of their fight against the faction before the “reconciliation” agreement in May 2018, where they had returned from the towns of Yalda, Babbila, and Beit Saham south of Damascus which are under the “Military Security Division’s” control; to their town in Aqraba, after receiving the approval of the “Air Intelligence” which controls it
The Syrian Observatory published on the 13th of July 2019 that the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights learned that 2 fighters of the “settlement” factions died under torture in the security detention centers of the Syrian regime, and in the details obtained by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights; a fighter from Douma city and another one from Kafr Batna town died under torture inside Saidnaya Military Prison about 5 months after being arrested, where their bodies were delivered to their families yesterday, Friday, and the two fighters had been operating within the ranks of the factions before they had their situation settled after the Syrian regime imposed its control over the Eastern Ghouta, where they were arrested after that, despite the alleged settlement, and taken then to Saidnaya Military Prison.
And the Syrian Observatory published on the 24th of June 2019, that the Syrian regime’s security services transferred more detainees from the Eastern Ghouta to Sednaya military prison in the past few days, after finishing the investigation with them, and in the details obtained by the Syrian Observatory: more than 70 detainees within the al-Khatib branch of the State Security in the capital Damascus and the Air Force Intelligence branch in Harasta, were transferred to Sednaya detention center, where most of the detainees are from areas of Hamouriyah, Douma, Saqba, Jesrin, KafrBatna, and al-Maliha, of who formerly used to be among the ranks of the rebel factions during their control of Eastern Ghouta, and participated in clashes against the regime forces and militiamen loyal to them then decided to carry out “settlements and reconciliation” after refusing to be displaced, in addition to the presence of civilians among the detainees, they were arrested on the backdrop of various charges, including “terrorist financing and contacting an outside bodies”, and they were transferred to Sednaya prison with the militaries, and the Syrian Observatory 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.