Afrin | Turkish-backed factions’ judicial authorities sentence displaced activist to three months imprisonment for “insulting the Free Army”

Reliable sources have told the Syrian Observatory that the Turkish-backed factions’ judicial authorities in Afrin sentenced a displaced activist from Damascus to three months imprisonment for “insulting the Free Army”, the sentence to be commuted to 15 days.

 

A few months earlier, the activist criticized the Turkish-backed military police, in his posts on social media, after the military police had graduated a new military batch with only the Turkish flag on their uniform, ignoring the Syrian Revolution’s flag. The activist was arrested at that time, then he was released after a while, until he was brought today before the court of the National Army’s factions.

 

On May 20, SOHR sources said that the military police in Afrin arrested a “civil activist” displaced from Al-Tadamon neighbourhood in Damascus to Jendires district in Afrin countryside. The activist was arrested following a post he had published on social media, criticizing the putting of the Turkish flag on the police’s new uniform, describing the police as “hypocrites”.