The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights

Demanded getting his house back | “Samarqand Brigade” beat young man brutally in Afrin countryside

Aleppo province: SOHR sources have reported that the members of the Turkish-backed brigade of “Samarqand” stormed a house in Jendires district and arrested a Kurdish young man from Kafr Safrah village in Jendires, after he had returned from Aleppo city to Afrin on September 8.

 

The young man was taken to the Turkish-backed faction’s headquarters where he was beaten and tortured brutally over his demands to regain his house and settle his security situation. It is worth noting that members of “Samarqand Brigade” had seized the young man’s house and refused to evacuate it.

 

The young man was released a few hours after he was arrested and after paying a ransom of 10,000 USD. However, the victim has been still bedridden due to the brutal torture he was subjected to.

 

On the other hand, members of the Turkish-backed military police arrested five civilians from Jelmah village in Jendires district on September 6. the military police took the people to a police station in Jendires and asked for ransoms. Four of the five people were released yesterday, after paying 5,000 TL each, while one was kept detained as he could not collect the requested money.

 

On September 9, SOHR activists reported that members of al-Jabhah al-Shamiyah arrested a civilian from Qourotqouliq village after returning back to Afrin from Lebanon on September 8, as he asked the Turkish-backed militiamen to evacuate his house in al-Ashrafiya neighborhood in Afrin city.

 

While on August 30, the military police arrested a civilian from Ba’adina village in Rajo district on charges of dealing with the former Autonomous Administration and collecting a ransom of 1,500 Turkish lira.

 

On the same day, August 30, SOHR activists reported that the checkpoint of the Turkish-backed military police arrested four persons from Ba’adina village in Rajo district for “serving previously in the ranks of the army of the former Autonomous Administration”, and the police asked their relatives to pay a ransom of 1,500 Turkish Lira in return for releasing them.