The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights

After the demonstrations and dismissing the employees of the “Salvation Government” in Kafr Takharim .. the western countryside of Idlib witnesses security mobilization by the members of Tahrir Al-Sham with purpose of storming the city

The city of Kafr Takharim is witnessing wide-scale protests developed to dismissing the members of Hayyaat Tahrir Al-Sham, in which the city became empty completely of any presence of Tahrir Al-Sham, after the General Authority for Zakat revoked the agreement with the locals of Kafr Takharim, which binds it to distribute the olive Zakat only within Kafr Takharim city.

In this context, Hayyaat Tahrir Al-Sham and their security forces in several places in Idlib and areas surrounding Kafr Takharim, have been mobilized, in order to put pressure over the locals of Kafr Takharim to subject them to comply with the decrees of the General Authority for Zakat as well as the return of the members of the police outpost to their work.

Sources confirmed to SOHR that meetings are underway to reach a solution satisfies the different parties.

SOHR published on the 4th of November 2019, that it monitored a demonstration in Kafr Takharim city north-west of Idlib.

Sources informed SOHR that the demonstrators have dismissed the deputies of the General Authority for Zakat stationed in Olive compressors.

The demonstrators also burned the papers on which they write down the amount of Zakat of each farmer, and dismissed the members of the police outpost that belongs to Hayyaat Tahrir Al-Sham.

In this context, an evening demonstration went out in Idlib city condemning the decrees of the Salvation Government.

On the 3rd of November 2019, SOHR published that residents of “Idlib” continued their rejection of the decisions of the “Rescue Government”, where there was an evening demonstration in the city of Idlib demanding the “Rescue Government” to reduce taxes and prices.

It is worth mentioning that the “Rescue Government” associated with the HTS in the region, imposes taxes on civilians from public places that are rented to the people and taxes on public property invested by the people and registration of cars in the records, as well as the arrest and detention of anyone who did not register his car it has.