Ongoing violations in Afrin | Military police arrest three civilians in Maabatli district

Aleppo province: SOHR activists have reported that a military police patrol has arrested two civilians from Shikhotka village in Maabatli district and another civilian from Karmouk village on charges of “going out on guard shifts during the autonomous administration’s control of Afrin.”

The two civilians have been taken to Afrin until their relatives paid a ransom of 1,500 Turkish liras.

Meanwhile, members of military police stationed at a checkpoint at the entrance to Afrin city have confiscated nearly 350 humanitarian aid rations and damaged aid rations of Shafaq organisation, following the organization’s refusal to grant 350 food rations to Abu Riyad Hammadin, commander of the military police in Afrin.

SOHR activists reported that members of “Malak Shah” faction arrested a displaced civilian from Jabal Al-Has in the southern Aleppo countryside outside of law’s reach (boundaries), for charges of “contacting with suspicious parties on Telegram”, where he was arrested in Khirbat Shiran village in Afrin countryside, on February 6.

According to SOHR sources, “Nabil Al-Qun” commander of Malak Shah faction demanded the civilian to evacuate two houses that belonged to forcedly displaced civilians of Afrin, under the pretext that these houses lie in their areas of control, however, the civilian refused to leave the houses and the commander arrested the civilian by fabricated charges of “dealing with suspicious parties.”

In the same context, members of a joint patrol between the Military Police and the Turkish-backed Al-Sham corps arrested three civilians from Shadira village and a civilian from Eiska village in Shirawa district in late January, for charges of “dealing with the former Autonomous Administration” to collect ransoms.