Ongoing violations and atrocities | National Army factions continue arresting, assaulting and imposing levies on people in Afrin

Aleppo province: SOHR activists have reported that a patrol of Political Security Forces arrested a civilian from Qarzihel village in Shiraw district in Afrin countryside for “dealing with former Kurdish forces” to collect ransom on June 23.

On June 17, a group of members of Ahrar Al-Sharqiyyah faction severely attacked a father and his son, who is from Sindiankah village in Jendires district in Afrin countryside, seizing his house by force of arms, following disagreements between the civilian and a member of Ahrar Al-Sharqiyyah.

Moreover, Al-Sultan Murad faction has imposed a levy of 50 USD on the harvesters in the villages of Qastal Kishk and Qarqalaq in Sharan district and imposed a levy of (a bag of wheat) on each farmer.

Furthermore, Al-Jabha Al-Shamiyyah faction also imposed a levy of 400 USD on a bus driver from Afrin for “delivering employees work at Autonomous-Administration to Al-Shahbaa areas during Autonomous Administration’s control over Afrin.