Rebels atrocities | Family escapes from Afrin after threats of killing, arrest and rape
Aleppo Province – Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: As Turkish-backed factions continue their atrocities against the people of Afrin canton, very reliable SOHR sources have confirmed that a group of “Ahrar Al-Sharqiyyah” has accused two women (a hairstylist and her neighbour) of practicing and promoting witchcraft and sorcery. The faction’s gunmen questioned the hairstylist in her house while his husband was kept waiting in another room.
The faction’s gunmen accused the hairstylist of promoting witchcraft for her neighbour’s favour, but she dismissed this claim. The neighbour also denied that the hairstylist promoting her work, after she acknowledged of practicing witchcraft and sorcery.
The gunmen asked the woman to pay 4 million SYL after beating and insulting her, while the two women uselessly turned to an officer in Turkish-backed factions in the same neighbourhood for help.
It is worth noting that while the Turkish-backed gunmen were questioning the hairstylist, they asked her to sleep with them after they imposed a fine on her as well. They also threatened to kill her husband or send him to Turkish-backed factions’ prisons for a fabricated charge. The woman asked the gunmen to give her just one day and promised them to do everything they wanted. On the following day, the hairstylist managed to escape with her husband and sons to Al-Shahbaa area after paying 1,250 USD for smugglers in order to be saved from these gunmen.
On June 25, reliable sources informed SOHR that “Suleiman Shah” faction, known as “Al-Amshat”, forced the residents of Yakhour village (Kakhrah) of Maabatli district in Afrin countryside to leave their houses. The residents were taken later to makeshift camps on the village’s northern outskirts.
According to SOHR sources, militiamen of “Al-Amshat” brought in several battalions affiliated to the faction, and took the houses as their headquarters, without revealing the reasons or motives behind this action.