For fear of ISIS revenge .. the locals of Al-Shuhayl town east of Deir Ezzor release 2 persons they arrested yesterday
Deir Ezzor Province – Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: Syrian Observatory for Human Rights learned from reliable sources that the locals in Al-Shuhayl town in Deir Ezzor countryside, have released 2 men they arrested yesterday.
The 2 men were arrested as they were blackmailing the locals for the purpose of collecting money under the pretext of being Zakat, under threats of killing in the case of not paying the sums of money.
Sources informed SOHR that they were released after the locals had received threats by members of the “Islamic State” organization.
On Nov. 3, SOHR published that it learned that a group of residents of al-Shuhayl town in the eastern countryside of Deir Ezzor, ambushed persons who are blackmailing people of the area in order to obtain money under the pretext of being “zakat,” where they threaten them with death if they do not pay, and according to sources of the Syrian Observatory, residents were able to ambush the group as they came to a gas station in the town to take a sum of $10,000 USD, where the residents clashed with the group of four people and were able to kill one of them, who is from al-Rez village and belongs to the “Islamic State” organization, another was arrested, and the two others managed to escape on the motorcycle.
The Syrian Observatory published on the 1st of October 2019 that the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights learned from several reliable sources, that 4 gunmen of the “Islamic State” organization have entered the hospital of Al-Shuhayl town in the eastern countryside of Deir Ezzor, and according to the information obtained by the SOHR; the ISIS members said to the hospital’s staff that they have not ask them for any money, and that a gang did so trying to discredit the “Islamic State”, and the organization’s gunmen will arrest them as soon as possible -as they claimed-, this action comes 2 days after unidentified persons threw a shroud in front of Al-Shuhayl Hospital claiming the hospital’s owners to pay money for the organization.