The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights

“Suleiman Shah” imposes new levies on residents in Afrin’s Sheikh Hadid

Armed members of the Turkish-backed faction “Suleiman Shah” which is in control of Sheikh Hadid township in rural Afrin has imposed new levies on the township’s residents by an estimated 15% of grapes harvest. The rebels also forced the residents to buy cardboard boxes, used for packing the grapes, from the faction.

 

The faction’s gunmen also imposed new levies ranges between 2,500 and 3,000 SYL on the residents of other villages, under the pretext of rehabilitating the faction’s headquarters in each village. Other persons have been required to pay higher levies reached to 100,000 SYL.

 

Meanwhile, other gunmen of the same faction have forced an elder man out of his house in Jaqla Wastani village, in order to seize the house and turn it into new headquarters.