The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights

Daily repeated accident | Al-Hamza Division members severely beat displaced from Aleppo

On June 8, 2021
Aleppo province: Turkey-backed National Army factions have continued all kinds of violations against the civilians in their areas of influence in the Aleppo countryside. SOHR activists have reported that more than 20 members of Al-Hamza Division checkpoint in al-Soflanyah neighborhood bear Baza’ah city in al-Bab area east of Aleppo have severely beaten a displaced from Aleppo city after his attempt to distract them away from his friend and his wife who had been insulted at the checkpoint.
Yesterday, SOHR documented that a civilian from Baiyah village near Shiro in Afrin countryside western Aleppo has passed away after suffering torture in one of the prisons of the Turkey-backed “al-Sham Corp” faction.
According to the Syrian Observatory, the dead man has been arrested in February 2020 by the militia of al-Sham Corp and was later freed after his family had paid 1,300 US dollars.
However, the same faction has arrested the same person again in April 2020, and has put him in Iska prison stationed nearby Shiro neighborhood. He passed away on June 4 after suffering severe torture. His family was forced to pay 1,000 US dollars to receive the body and bury him secretly and without taking photo of the corpse.