The regime forces carry out raids in the Eastern Ghouta and make incumbent upon the residents to obtain a “departure permission” to move to Damascus after questioning its applicants and prevent those who work in the opposition’s institutions from departure
Rif Dimashq Province – The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights: the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitored that the regime forces and gunmen loyal to them carried out today, Sunday the 5th of August 2018, a wide raid and searching operations inside Mesraba town in the Eastern Ghouta of Damascus, where the main and side roads to the town have been closed, and the regime forces have deployed in the town and searched houses, farms and shops, and this action was accompanied by the sound of gunfire inside the town, during the time of carrying out the raid, and this searching and raid come with escalating the pace of arrests and security procedures inside the Eastern Ghouta.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights also monitored that the regime forces arrested a doctor in Kafr Batna town, who served as the director of Al-Anwar Hospital of Al-Rahman Corps, and he was a member within the Military Council of the Eastern Ghouta of Damascus, he is also a former dean and a doctor of infectious diseases, and the SOHR also monitored that the persons who served formerly in the civil defense, were sent for, by the regime’s security branches, which questioned them, then they were returned to the Eastern Ghouta, without being allowed to leave the Eastern Ghouta.
In the same context, the SOHR monitored that the regime forces have made incumbent upon the residents of the Eastern Ghouta, to get a “security approval”, in the case that they desire to leave towards the capital Damascus, and local sources confirmed to the Syrian Observatory that the regime’s checkpoints provided that the residents of the Eastern Ghouta have to head towards the officers who are in charge of the Eastern Ghouta, in order to obtain a “departure permission”, in order to be allowed to leave through the checkpoints to the capital Damascus, and the locals confirmed that this document is given after a quick investigation to those who request the “departure permission”, and the investigation includes questions about their relatives and those who remained of them inside Ghouta, and those who left towards the Syrian North or outside Syria, while sources talked about the fact that the regime forces prevented those who used to work in medic and relief fields, or within parties opposed to the regime in the Eastern Ghouta, and stayed in the Eastern Ghouta to have their situations settled, from leaving towards Damascus.