Torture victims | “Crime Control Forces” torture young man to death in eastern Deir Ezzor

Reliable sources have told SOHR that a young man from Deir Ezzor countryside died under torture in the prison of the “Crime Control Forces” in Al-Busayrah city. The victim was arrested two days ago after altercation with a member of the “Crime Control Forces” in Mashekh village, as these forces were raiding a house in the village to arrest another person.

 

In an attempt to disclaim responsibility for the killing of the young man, “Crime Control Forces” has taken the victim’s body to the “General Security Department” which delivered the body to the prison in Al-Kasrah town.

 

Reliable sources have informed SOHR that the young man died from blunt force head trauma. The young man was also cruelly tortured, as he was electrocuted and burnt with cigarettes.

 

Yesterday, SOHR sources reported that SDF fighters stationed in Al-Shabakah neighbourhood in Al-Shuhayl town in the eastern countryside of Deir Ezzor, opened fire on a smuggler on the bank of the Euphrates river while attempting to smuggling several people via the river. The indiscriminate gunshots hit civilian houses in the neighbourhood where a civilian was injured.