The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights

The Turkish military police remove banners in Afrin city were placarded by Syrian opposition parties regarding “Sharia” instructions and standards

Aleppo Province – The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: intersected sources confirmed to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights that the Turkish military police, carried out a campaign in Afrin city, during which they torn apart all the banners that were distributed by Sharia bodies of the Syrian opposition in Afrin city, with regard to “Sharia” instructions about religious wear and commitment, where the members of the Turkish police torn and removed them from the city, while Afrin city which is controlled by “Olive branch” Operation and the Turkish Forces; witnessed 72 hours ago, tens of young men protesting at Azadi Square in Afrin city, demanding the release of a media activist who was kidnapped by parties control the city, where the youths accused al-Hamzah Division of kidnapped him and taking him to one of detentions of the division which operates in “Olive Branch” operation, because the media activist has been harassed recently by members of Hamzah Division, amid calls from the young protesters for demonstrations today, Sunday, if the fate of the activist has not been revealed and released.

A few days earlier, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights published that local sources confirmed to the Syrian Observatory that the factions of the Operation “Olive Branch” which are located in Afrin area, are still continuing to loot and thieve the property of the citizens, and the residents confirmed that factions have imposed royalties on the owners and farmers of the agricultural lands and farms in Afrin area, while they burn the crops of those who refuse to pay the royalties, the SOHR also learned from intersected sources, that tens of vehicles have returned from the contact lines between the controlled areas of the Turkish forces and the forces of the “Olive Branch” Operation, and the regime’s controlled areas and the controlled areas of the Kurdish forces in the northern countryside of Aleppo, as a result of preventing the citizens by the factions and Turkish authorities from returning to Afrin area, also the Syrian Observatory published few days ago, that it monitored the Syrian opposition of the “Olive Branch” operation arresting tens of citizens in Afrin city And its countryside in the northwest sector of Aleppo province, where the people accused the factions working in Afrin area of taking the arrest as a trade, by bringing the citizens to detention centers and forcing their relatives to pay a ransom in exchange for releasing them, after beating and torturing them, also the factions interrogate the families returning to Afrin area, about their association with the Democratic Union Party and the Kurdish Forces, and the Syrian Observatory monitored few days ago, a shy return of the displaced people of Afrin, where displaced families in the northern countryside of Aleppo were able to return to Afrin area, after being allowed by the checkpoints of factions and the Turkish Forces to return to the area, sources told the Syrian Observatory that the numbers of returnees is considered too small compared to hundreds of thousands of who have been displaced from Afrin and its countryside, and the returning families are being subjected to investigation about the existence of family members who are enrolled in the Self-Defense duty, and whether they were joined voluntarily or are forced to do so, as well as their partisan and political connection with the Democratic Union Party and Kurdish Forces.