In presence of “Sheikh Dofdaa” | Regime forces release dozens of criminal detainees in eastern Ghouta
Rif Dimashq Province: The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights has reported that hundreds of civilians gathered in the main courtyard of Kafr Batna town in Rif Dimashq, waiting to welcome their sons whom the security services promised to release today.
Unfortunately, SOHR activists have monitored tens of women cried and lost consciousness due to their disappointed when their sons, who have been detained for more than eight years in regime prisons, were not released under today’s deal, despite Sheikh Dofdaa’s promises to release them. The families were shocked when they found that majority of the prisoners released today had been arrested for criminal cases, where regime security services released 32 detainees from Kafr Batna district in Eastern Ghouta.
The released prisoners were received with a welcome reception attended by Sheikh Bassam Dofdaa, the prominent spiritual figure of reconciliation deals, some pro-regime Sheikhs, some officers and some members of al-Baath party.
SOHR sources had reported that Russians and regime security services opened new centers with the aim of striking new reconciliation deals with the residents in all cities and towns of eastern Ghouta as well as the individuals wanted in lawsuits on condition of being not involved in killing any regime soldiers while fighting alongside opposition factions, during the battles occurred when eastern Ghouta was under the factions’ control.
The new reconciliation deals were supposed to cover the young people who passed their date of joining the mandatory service in the regime army. According to SOHR sources, top officials of al-Baath Party in eastern Ghouta called upon the residents whose relatives were detained in regime prisons to register the names of detainees in the party’s headquarters and to mention the date and circumstances of the arrest and all information about these detainees. The officials also told the residents that new batches of detainees in region prisons would be released if they were found not involved in murders, under a “condescendence” by the president Bashar al-Assad, as the officials described.