Arbitrary arrests | Turkish-backed factions arrest three civilians in different areas of Afrin

Aleppo province: SOHR activists have reported that members of a Military Police patrol arrested a civilian from Al-Ashrafiyah district in Afrin city on December 31 for unknown charges.

In the same context, members of Al-Jabha Al-Shamiyah patrol arrested two Yazidi civilians from Tarnada village in Afrin countryside on December 30, confiscated their mobiles and identity cards and took them to security base, without revealing the charges against them.

On December 31, SOHR sources reported that a patrol of Al-Sham Corps, which is close to Turkish Intelligence, arrested four civilians from Faferteen village in Shirawa district in Afrin countryside, north of Aleppo, for “dealing with the former Autonomous Administration”, as Al-Sham Corps members aimed to collect ransoms in return for their release.

While on December 30, a patrol of “Al-Jabha Al-Shamiyah” arrested residents from Maabatli district on a day earlier for unknown reasons.

Suleiman Shah “Al-Amshat” faction also arrested a woman from Maabatli district on charge of “dealing with Autonomous Administration” and transferring her to court in Afrin, where she was sentenced to one year in prison, but the sentence was reduced to six months after her family had filed a petition to reduce the sentence and paid money.