The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights

With her hands tied | Woman kil-led inside her house in northern Daraa countryside

Daraa province: SOHR activists have reported that a woman from Homs province was found killed with her hands tied inside her house in Al-Qinya town in northern Daraa countryside, without knowing the motives behind the crime or the identity of the criminals, while the local authorities interfered and arrested her husband to reveal the details of the crime.

The Syrian Observatory has documented 159 murders in regime-controlled areas since early 2022, where domestic violence and armed robbery were behind some of these murders, while motivations behind the others remained unknown. These murders left 174 civilians: 32 children, 30 women, and 112 young and adult men, dead. The fatalities are distributed regionally as follows:

• Al-Suwaydaa: 34 civilians: four children, including an infant, three women, and 27 men.

• Rif Dimashq: 33 civilians: six children, eight women, and 19 men, including an Iraqi man.

• Homs: 26 civilians: two little girls, four women, and 20 men.

• Hama: 18 civilians: an infant, two children, four women, and 11 men.

• Daraa: 13 civilians: six children, six men and a woman.

• Deir Ezzor: 11 people: seven men, a child, and three women.

• Aleppo: Eight civilians: an infant and seven men.

• Tartus: 11 civilians: four women, four men, and three children.

• Damascus: Eight civilians: a woman, six men and a child.

• Latakia: Eight civilians: two women, four children, and two men.

• Al-Raqqah: Two men.

• Idlib: A man.

• Al-Quneitra: A child.