A video from inside the police department of Sharan in Afrin city spread to detained children who are being used to clean the “toilet” with their hands and fingernails, where voices are heard of men threatening the children and asking them to speed up.
Sharan police station in Afrin is using detained and abducted children in cleaning the department toilets in such unimaginable way. Osama al-Mahmoud from Mare' city is the police department officer and is appionted directly in this position by Turkey. pic.twitter.com/V8lZr8B7Lo
— VdC-NsY Northeastern Syria (@vdcnsy) September 20, 2019
The directorate is under the command of police officer Osama al-Mahmud, who is from Mara’a and appointed by Turkey.
The police forces in the Security Directorate of Sharan admitted in a statement that its members punished the detained children in cleaning the bathrooms, considering it an individual act and justified him as a photographer with an old history and that these children were imprisoned for rape.
A second video leaked from the Civil Police Department, or is known as Free Police in the northern city of al-Bab, shows children being beaten for theft by Lieutenant Ahmed Osman.
Leaked video of children being tortured by Ahmad Osman who a lieutenant in the so called "Free Police" in al-Bab city, northern Syria. Both children are accused of stealing and they are desparately screeming while being beaten that they had to steal. pic.twitter.com/BvTRkTQrxO
— VdC-NsY Northeastern Syria (@vdcnsy) September 17, 2019