Afrin violations | Al-Sham Corps arrests five civilians in Shirawa district

Aleppo Province – Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: Reliable sources have informed SOHR that patrols of the Islamic faction of “Al-Sham Corps”, which is close to the Turkish Intelligence, have arrested five civilians in Basofan and Burj Haydar villages of Shirawa district in Afrin countryside in the north-west of Aleppo for unknown reasons.

 

On March 19, SOHR sources reported that the military police in Raju in Afrin released seven women, who were held for five days in Raju prison after being arrested in Bolbol district in Afrin countryside while they were smuggling themselves to Turkey.

 

The release of the women came after the “Revolution Activists Association in Homs” had issued a statement demanded the release of the women in no more than 24 hours, or the association’s activists would stage a demonstration denouncing the military police’s “inappropriate” practices.

 

It is worth noting that commanders of the Turkish-backed factions and dignitaries displaced in Afrin mediated to set the women free.