20 days after being arrested | SDF release four civilians from rural Deir Ezzor

Deir Ezzor Province – Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: SOHR sources have reported that Syria Democratic Forces have released four civilians, a man and two of his sons and a displaced teacher from Al-Baghouz town in Deir Ezzor countryside, nearly 20 days after being arrested in Al-Shuhayl town. SDF, backed by Coalition helicopters, had stormed Al-Shuhayl town and arrested the four persons and took them to security headquarters in the region.

 

Meanwhile, SDF continue their security campaign in the eastern countryside of Deir Ezzor in the wake of ongoing attack on their members and the recent security chaos’ escalation.

 

On February 6, SOHR sources reported that SDF patrols of carried out a series of raids in the city of Al-Busayrah in the eastern countryside of Deir Ezzor province, during which they arrested about six people, and they were: two ex-ISIS members, a former SDF member and three civilians. The arrested civilians included a man working as a bus driver between Al-Busayrah and the city of al-Qamishli and he was arrested with his 16-year-old son. However, SDF were unable to arrest his eldest son, who was accused of “working for ISIS cells”.

 

A day earlier, SOHR sources reported that SDF members arrested, in the early hours of Friday morning, an old man in his seventies from his house in Al-Shuhayl town in the eastern countryside of Deir Ezzor, taking him to SDF security centres.

 

This development coincided with the ongoing security campaign by SDF, which targeted smugglers, individuals working in river crossings and ISIS cells.