The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights

“al-Shamiyyah Front” continues its violations in Tal Abyad and arrests 10 citizens including a young woman and civil activists

The Ankara-loyal factions continue their abuses in the Syrian north, where the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights learned that the faction of al-Shamiyyah Front carried out new arbitrary arrests in Tal Abyad city in the northern countryside of al-Raqqah, and arrested about 10 people including a young woman and opposition activists, but no information about the reasons for arresting them so far, sources told the Syrian Observatory that there are torture operations in prisons of al-Shamiyyah Front against its detainees, amid increased popular discontent with actions of the factions in Tal Abyad and the actions of al-Shamiyyah Front in particular, and the Syrian Observatory published few days ago that the pro-Turkey factions arrested 2 young men from Al-Raqqah province, and tortured them brutally like what happens in the regime’s security detention centers.

According to information obtained by SOHR; “Al-Jabha al-Shamiyyah” faction beat the 2 brothers then arrested them after disagreement ignited between them a after a vehicle of “Al-Jabha al-Shamiyyah” broke the tube that feeds the brothers’ land with water, where they were arrested, tortured and humiliated, also one of the faction’s fighters put out cigarettes in the bodies of the 2 young men.

On November 12, SOHR published that members of the pro-Turkey Syrian opposition factions, started to house their families in the civilians’ houses in Ras Al-Ayn area (Sere Kaniye), after owners of these houses flee the Turkish military operation “Peace Spring”.

“As the Turkish military operation began, violations started against the citizens who remained in Ras Al-Ayn, where the Turkey-loyal factions started to loot the citizens’ property, in addition to the kidnapping of citizens for collecting ransoms from their families in return for releasing them” reliable sources said.

“The violations carried out by the pro-Turkey factions included a demographic change in Tal Abyad city, through housing the families of the factions’ members in houses of people forcibly displaced from the city” the sources added.

Members of the Turkish-backed factions have been confiscating the houses of Kurdish citizens in the city and allocated a numbe houses of Kurds in Al-Mahattah northern neighborhood, including the house of Jamil Al-Ali Qarkij, where they housed their families in the civilians’ houses, according to reliable sources.

“The Turkish forces and factions loyal to them, carry out the most heinous violations against the civilians, where the city became as if being a jungle full of predators, Turkey tries to change the city demographically by imposing its control over the Kurds’ houses, and writing the names of members of their loyal factions in order to allocate these houses and prevent the Kurds from returning to them” the sources added.