Afrinpost-Special
On Sunday, 17 November, Al-Shamia Front and the Muslim Brotherhood militia kidnapped a Kurdish youth in the city of Afrin.
The correspondent of “Afrinpost” confirmed thet the checkpoint of the militia Al-Shamiya front “located at the roundabout Nawroz, led by the so-called” Abu Ali “kidnapped the Kurdish citizen (Kh.M) and released him the same day, after paying them a ransom of $5,000.
It is noteworthy that the young man (Kh), a resident of the village of “Deirswan” of the district “Shara / Sharan” and was kidnapped several times for being well off.
The BBC website on Tuesday, represented a report in which a Kurdish woman talked about the abductions and extortion against the indigenous Kurds by the militants of Islamic militias of the Turkish occupation and the Muslim Brotherhood.
Jamila, who lives in London, told the British website that her brother was recently kidnapped in Afrin by Islamic militias: “They kidnapped him and called us from his phone for ransom as a condition for his release, we just had to send them 10,000 pounds to leave him.”
A UN report in September said that “the victims of kidnappings by armed groups or criminal gangs are all Kurdish civilians who are perceived as wealthy people, such as doctors, businessmen and merchants, and the victims usually disappear at checkpoints, or They are kidnapped from their homes at night. “