narrative about factions violations in Afrin

August 11, 2018

A narrator obtained by the Documentation Center for violations in northern Syria “for a civilian managed to escape from the city of Afrin.

 A civilian (AB), We maintain his name as fact that members of his family are still in Afrin / recently exited from the city of Afrin to Al Shahba  area of ​​.  AB tells in his speaks about transferred of a school in his village to a prison, To torture detainees, and that their voices were heard at night as a result of the ongoing torture in those prisons.

(AB) reported that villages were subjected to repeated raids by several factions, suddenly may be at any time without taking into account the sanctity of homes, where the cracking of doors and windows and the confiscation of computers, phones and stealing any money or gold, even if they were later released, they are re-arrested by another faction , he also recounted several cases of detainees. The factions communicate with their relatives to request a ransom for his release and allow arrested person to communicate with his family for ransom under torture. He also spoke about restrictions placed on the movement to and from towns and villages and restrictions on farmers’ access to their fields and orchards …

(AP) narrated his difficult trip out of Afrin, and they require communication with the “smuggler” usually being of military factions, usually asking for an amount of up to “1000 dollars.”