Execution | HTS executes two persons in Idlib for “murdering” a fuel dealer

Reliable SOHR source have confirmed that Hayyaat Tahrir Al-Sham has executed two persons, one of them is from Salqin city while the other is from a village adjacent Salqin near Iskenderun border. The two persons have been executed for “being involved in murdering a fuel dealer from Hama”.

 

In June 11 SOHR sources reported that HTS executed a commander defected from the Islamic State. According to Observatory sources, the commander was Algerian migrant and had been a prominent leader in the organization. He defected from ISIS years earlier. The organization had sentenced him to death immediately after his defection.

 

The commander had fled Al-Raqqah city to Turkey a few years earlier, and then to Idlib where he worked as a teacher for students who had defected from the organization.

 

On April 30, SOHR activists reported that Hayaat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) executed a civilian from Ma’amal Oshhagi village in Mabata area, north of Aleppo.

 

According to Observatory sources, the young man was a refugee in Turkey, before being deported several months earlier by the Turkish authorities during the forced deportation campaign of Syrians from Turkey. The young man was arrested by Tahrir Al-Sham just after entering Syrian territory, and was imprisoned for several months in the group’s prisons. He was sentenced to death later for belonging to the Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG) and carrying out criminal acts with regime forces in Aleppo city, as local sources confirmed.

 

On April 20, SOHR sources reported that HTS executed a young man from Dara Izza in north-western countryside of Aleppo, for various charges, including “blasphemy, insulting the God, having illegal relationships with women, drug abuse and attempting to return to regime-controlled areas as well as his loyalty to the regime”. SOHR local sources confirmed that all of these charges were untrue.