Accused of going out on guard shifts | “Military police” arrest civilians from Raju District

Aleppo province: SOHR activists have reported that a Turkish-backed military police patrol arrested two civilians from Hajiku village in Raju district, on January 2, on a charge of participating in guard shifts during the Autonomous Administration control of Afrin and its suburbs.

On January 2, SOHR activists 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.

This is part of the extrajudicial arrests carried out by the factions operating under the banner of “national army” against civilians in areas under their control in the countryside of Aleppo.