HTS-affiliated “Centre of Salvation” returns to repress residents in surrounding areas of Idlib city

Reliable sources have informed SOHR that the “Committee for  promotion of virtue and vice prevention” of Hayyaat Tahrir Al-Sham, dubbed the “Centre of Salvation”, resumed its activities in areas under the control of HTS after long time of suspension.

 

According to SOHR sources members of the “Centre of Salvation” smashed hookahs belong to young people, while they were smoking on Al-Kornish street nearby Idlib city as “smoking hookahs is a vice and it is prohibited to do so in public”, as the centre’s members said.

 

It is worth noting that the residents of Idlib city and surrounding areas resort to the Kornish of Idlib to relax and go for a walk in the wake of the heat wave striking the most of Syrian territories.

 

On May 11, reliable sources told the Syrian Observatory that HTS reactivated the committee of “Arms of Charity” in areas under its control in Idlib, but that time under the name of “The Centre of Salvation” for “the promotion of virtue and vice prevention”, two years after ”Arms of Charity” being suspended after considerable popular pressure, following the many restrictions it imposed during its existence, as well as arbitrary arrests and clamping down on people.

 

The Syrian Observatory has obtained a copy of a list containing some of the prohibitions that the “committee for the promotion of virtue and vice prevention” would impose, which says:

 

– Mingling in restaurants, offices and other places to be prevented.

 

– A woman without a companion from her parents or relatives is not allowed to be alone with a shopkeeper.

 

– Preventing men from selling women’s clothes. 

 

– Following-up the wedding halls and gyms and prevent reprehensible acts in them.

 

– Smoking hookah (Narghileh) in streets, shops and restaurants.

 

– Banning some haircuts and tightening measures on barbers.

 

-Preventing cases of harassment, accosting and standing outside educational institutions and offices.

 

– Prevent reprehensible acts and pictures or posters placed in shops and others places.

 

– Mingling of young people with girls in educational institutes to be prevented.