For “taking photos of military headquarters” | “Liwaa Fatemiyoun” arrest two NDF members in al-Mayadeen

Deir Ezzor province: Syrian Observatory activists in al-Mayadeen city in the eastern countryside say that the Iranian-backed Afghani “Liwaa Fatemiyoun” has arrested two members of the regime-backed National Defence Forces (NDF) for “taking photos of its military headquarters in al-Hawi area.

On May 22, reliable sources told SOHR that the Iranian-backed Afghani militia of “Fatemiyoun” informed, via the regime’s agricultural association, the owners of farmlands in villages and towns in the area between al-Mayadeen city and Subaykhan town in the eastern countryside of Deir Ezzor, which are under the control of regime forces and Iranian-backed militias, that they had to give the militia a share of 10% of the wheat and barley harvest under the pretext of “protecting their farmlands and facilitating their work”. “Liwa Fatemiyoun” threatened the farmlands’ owners to confiscate all of their wheat and barley harvest if they refused to pay the recently-imposed levy. Moreover, “Liwa Fatemiyoun” appointed supervisors to count the agriculture crops to make sure that the Iranian-backed militia got the correct share of the harvest.