The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights

“Compulsory recruitment” | SDF arrests three siblings after days of leaving Al-Rukban camp in western Al-Raqqah countryside

Syrian Observatory activists have reported that SDF forces have arrested three brothers in Al-Mansoura area in western Al-Raqqah countryside for “compulsory recruitment” into Self-Defence forces, amid reports of their release after SDF forces confirmed that the young men are not residents in this area and just come in a visit there.

It is worth noting that the young men left Al-Rukban camp in the Syrian desert days ago.

On July 23, SOHR activists in besieged Al-Rukban camp by Iranian-backed militias, regime and Russian forces in the Syrian desert in the 55-kilometre zone at Syria’s eastern border with Iraq and Jordan, reported that four families fled the dire living conditions in Al-rukban camp for regime-controlled areas, although there are no guarantees to protect them from arrest by the regime’s security services, and they are as follows:

• Two families from Muhin city in Homs countryside.
• A family from Palmyra countryside.
• A family from Aleppo countryside.

The dire living conditions have led to turning the camp into a “large prison” that hosts 11,000 displaced persons in the Syrian desert.

Accordingly, the number of families which have left Al-Rukban camp since early July has reached 13 families, five young men and two children.