The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights

Under Military Security’s supervision | Regime authorities take over private properties by “provisional seizure” decision in eastern Ghouta

Reliable sources have informed SOHR that forces of the “277” branch known as “Military Security” affiliated with the regime forces have seized, over the las week. a large number of houses in the areas of Saqba, Kafr Batna, Hamouria, Beit Sawa, Jisrin, Ain Tarma and Zamalka in the eastern Ghouta of Damascus.

In details obtained by the Syrian Observatory from local sources inside eastern Ghouta, patrols of the “Military Security” branch, accompanied by personnel of the regime’s government departments, went to more than 100 houses in those areas in eastern Ghouta, and marked the doors of the houses with paint and wrote “Seized by branch 277”, then they spoke with the residents of these houses to evacuate them in a maximum of one week.

According to Syrian Observatory sources, all the houses that have been or are being seized, owned by persons whose property was confiscated under the decision of “provisional seizure of property”, which belong to people who have been displaced to the north or live aboard in the countries of asylum, and some of them are in the regime prisons.