The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights

Unfounded news | SOHR denies circulated news by diplomat “Bassam Barbandi” on marijuana cultivation in Al-Darbasiyah in Al-Hasakeh countryside

Former Syrian diplomat and current opposition member, Bassam Barbandi, posted on his personal Twitter account, a picture showing land cultivated with “cannabis” and wrote the phrase “growing cannabis in Al-Darbasiya, Al-Hasakah.”

Accordingly, SOHR has followed up the news, considering that Al-Darbasiyah is Syrian land and the cultivation of cannabis, illegal drugs, is a clear international violation.

SOHR activists confirm that the picture is not in Syria and had been widely posted on social media for many months.