As the agreement of al-Fu’ah and Kafriya is almost completed, Hayyaat Tahrir al-Sham arrests 20 of the persons released by the regime, anger prevails people of Idlib city and call Hayyaat Tahrir al-Sham for people instead of those who “settle their situation”

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights obtained information confirming that al-Fu’ah and Kafriya agreement has not been completed until the moment, as the exchange process has been hindered by developments in the agreement, and in the details obtained by the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: about 13 buses are still being held in factions’ controlled areas, after demands by Hayyaat Tahrir al-Sham from the regime forces to release people instead of hundreds of detainees who chose to “settle their situation” and remain within regime forces’-controlled areas, where consultations are under way to overcome this obstacle and to complete the agreement which is nearing completion, where tens of buses have entered Jabrin area where the regime forces established temporary accommodation centers for about 7000 residents of al-Fu’ah and Kafriya; of who have been evacuated from both towns, which have witnessed the entry of the factions and sweeping houses, roads, and the old contact lines with the factions, which killed and wounded several members, where 3 persons -mostly members of the factions- were  killed in mine explosions in the towns of al-Fu’ah and Kafriya during the opening of roads and sweeping.

Activists of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored a situation of anger in Idlib city, accompanied the gathering of tens of families in Idlib city; demanding the release of their children who have been arrested by the regime forces years ago, and they accused Hayyaat Tahrir al-Sham with “deceiving them and accepting names of people arrested in the past days and weeks”, the Syrian Observatory’s activists monitored accusations and altercations between detainees and residents from Idlib city and between members and commanders of Hayyaat Tahrir al-Sham, and what raised the anger and resentment of releasing these hundreds of detainees (where half of the released detainees were arrested recently during the time of the secret negotiations between parties of the agreement) was that Hayyaat Tahrir al-Sham arrested about 20 of these recently released detainees of the batch that arrived in Idlib, where sources of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored the arrest of at least 20 young men from Daraa province by Hayyaat Tahrir al-Sham, where the arrests took place after the released young men explained their situation, where they told the people who gathered around them that they are from Daraa Province, and that they were arrested about 15 days ago when they were settling their situation in Idlib Province, where they were added to the list of detainees and transferred to Idlib along with the other released detainees within the Russian – Turkish agreement, and as soon as the young men of Daraa finished their testimony, Hayyaat Tahrir al-Sham brought a patrol and detained them and transfer them to an unknown destination.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights published hours ago that hundreds of detainees have arrived according to the Russian – Turkish agreement to areas controlled by the opposition in the southern countryside of Aleppo, coincided with entering thousands of people of the gunmen and fighters from the towns of al-Fu’ah and Kafriya to areas controlled by the regime forces; as the exchange process is almost completed, reliable sources confirmed to the Syrian observatory that more than 700 detainees have been released from prisons and detention centers of the regime forces of who were arrested in the past days and weeks; during the secret negotiations between parties of the agreement, where the regime forces arrested them during this period, amid accusations against the regime forces of “adding their names in the negotiation file to scam the Russian-Turkish agreement”.

This action provoked resentment of families of the detainees, who demanded clarifications from the opposition negotiators as to whether they had submitted full nominal lists of 1500 people who are in the Syrian security detentions, or that specific lists containing hundreds of names –including fighters and members of factions operating on the Syrian soil– had been handed over, or a nominal lists was imposed by the regime forces completely –including members of factions– as a decoy to deceive the public opinion and parties of the negotiation, the sources confirmed that large numbers of those who have been released after being arrested in the last weeks;  have stayed within regime forces’-controlled areas with claims of “resolving their situation”.

The Syrian Observatory published in the last 24 hours that in conjunction with the preparations for carrying out the items of the agreement of Kafriya and al-Fu’aa, which took place with a Russian – Turkish consensus, and one of the most prominent points was the release of hundreds of detainees in prisons of the Syrian regime, where there are fears of manipulating this file by officials and supporters of the Syrian regime and its allies.

Reliable sources confirmed to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights that as preparations started for the release of hundreds of detainees of the regime forces, the manipulation and extortion have also started by influential people in the Syrian regime’s authority, and they started escalating the process, where the people told the Syrian Observatory their fears that some of the strong officials and brokers may extort money from the detainees, and asking for millions of Syrian pounds under the pretext of securing the exit of their imprisoned children, also some of them convince the people that they are able to change names and they can replace names of detainees who are getting out of regime’s prisons with names of their own prisoners; who are being paid large sums of money by their families to get them out, while others blackmail people by persuading them that they can place the names of their relatives on the sidelines of detainees file, who are waiting to get out of the prisons and jails of the regime in application of the Russian – Turkish agreement.