HTS executes a person in Idlib for espionage
Syrian Observatory activists have confirmed that Hayyaat Tahrir Al-Sham executed a person in Al-Janudiah town in Jisr Al-Shughur countryside by firing squad. The executed person was arrested on the 13th of May 2019 for espionage and communication with regime forces, after voice notes and messages to regime soldiers and officers had been found on his mobile phone, giving details on the situations in Kabani area.
Observatory sources reported earlier that Hayyaat Tahrir al-Sham executed a 25-year-old man from Idlib’s Salqin on the 11th of December 2019. According to SOHR sources, the young man was arrested after resisting security forces of Hayyaat Tahrir al-Sham on charges of drug use. He was sentenced later to two years in prison, however, HTS handed over his body to his relatives after only eight months of detention.
On November 24, Syrian Observatory activists reported that Hayyaat Tahrir Al-Sham intended to execute “Hirabah law” against 30 indictees in cases of kidnapping.
Reliable sources confirmed that some of those 30 persons, acknowledged crimes including banditry, kidnapping and killing, after members of the security forces tortured them while interrogation, leaving the professional ways of interrogation and questioning.
Sources said that the judge is “Abu Azzam Al-Jazarawy”, a Saudi national, who is the official in charge of the security file and known for his cruel and arbitrary judgments, also the trials are being held in closed sessions without the indictee’s relatives being present or even getting a lawyer, raising questions about what these courts want to keep from locals, it is believed that they want to keep the involvement of prominent commanders of Tahrir Al-Sham within these incidents secret.
Meanwhile, SOHR sources obtained the names of a number of persons accused of those crimes including ten persons from Idlib countryside.
Local sources said that Hayyaat Tahrir Al-Sham asked the relatives of some of the indictees to pay astronomical sums of money reached 300,000 US dollars for releasing them, but their families refused to pay.