Ransom of 13,000 TL | 11 Afrinian civilians released from Military Police and Mohamed al-Fateh prisons

Aleppo province: The Military Police and Mohamed al-Fateh faction have released 11 civilians from Ma’malia village in Rajo countryside after one day of detention.

It is worth noting that the Military Police and Mohamed al-Fateh faction had carried arrests against the population from the village on October 17 and arrested 11 civilians for ransom and then freed them one day later for 2,000 TL for each person.

Yesterday, SOHR activists reported that al-Hamzah Division that controls al-Bastoutah village in Shiro neighborhood pressed the people in Afrin via imposing new levies on the population and on the cars passing the village.

Al-Hamzah Division monthly levies are valued at 100 USD that was known as protection tax. The faction also imposed levies on the farmers by forcing them to pay 2 dollars on every olive tree annually and imposed levies on the passing cars via al-Bastoutah village. Each driver who would like to cross al-Hamzah Division checkpoint shall pay 50 to 100 Turkish lira to allow them passing through the village.

It is worth noting that al-Basoutah village is the vital artillery where hundreds of cars cross daily from and to Euphrates Shield and Olive Branch areas towards the HTS-held areas.

In Bulbul neighborhood al-Majad Crops has imposed levies that valued with 300 oil tanks on the population of the Kila village population in Bulbul neighborhood under pretext of boosting the Syrian Revolution where the economic official of al-Majd Crops has asked on last Thursday the people to pay the levies, 300 oil tanks, to the economic bureau, based on the income of each farmer.