Afrinpost – Special
The arrest campaign waged by the Turkish occupation militia and the Muslim Brotherhood organization in the occupied Afrin region continues, in connection with fabricated accusations, the aim of which is to impose a financial ransom within the framework of the restriction on the people and the impoverishment policy.
Following the news, which included an arrest campaign Arab Sheikho village of Mobata / Maabatli district, on Sunday the 16th of August, and led to the arrest of a number of citizens, the Afrinpost correspondent in the occupied Afrin region was able to document the names of the detained citizens, and they are all of :
1 Muhammad Muhammad. 2- Fouad Muhammad. 3- Muhammad Abboush. 4- Ali Abdo Aboush. 5 Hassan Ayoub. A sixth person, whose identity has not been identified, has been reported.
Most of them were released in exchange for paying five hundred US dollars each, while one of them paid five hundred Turkish liras, and the citizen Muhammad Muhammad paid 300 US dollars.
The correspondent indicated that the arrest campaign continues, and those who refrain from paying the ransom money are transferred to the “Military Police” militia in the district center.
It is reported that the “Suqoor al-Shamal Brigade” militia affiliated with the Turkish occupation and the Muslim Brotherhood organization, on Monday (8/17/2020), launched a massive kidnapping campaign in the village of Gamruk in Sharra / Sharran district in the countryside of the occupied Afrin region, affecting a number of Kurdish citizens under the pretext of leaving in guard patrols during the previous Autonomous Administration, according to the Afrinpost correspondent in the district.
The campaign affected more than ten Kurdish citizens, among whom were known: (1- Adnan Zakaria Hassan, 35 years old, 2- Ahmed Zakaria Hassan, 38 years old, 3- Abd al-Rahman Abdo Ahmo, 75 years old, 4- Luqman Khalil Ahmu, 35 years old, 5) Abdo Hassan Rasul, 75 years old. 6- Zaki Khoja Ali 62 years old 7- Kamal Hassan Ahmed 62 years old 8- Mahmoud Rasho Abdo 9- Walid Rasho Abdo). The elderly man (Abd al-Rahman Abdo Ahmu, 75 years old) was released after he paid a ransom of 1,000 Turkish liras.
The reporter emphasized that the current kidnapping campaign will not be limited to a village or another, but rather as part of a general campaign under the supervision of Turkish intelligence, and that the pretext for this campaign is to going out in guard patrols under the previous Autonomous Administration, with the aim of financial extortion, harassment, impoverishment and starvation to displace as much as possible the indigenous Kurdish population from their homes, where the amount imposed by the militias as a ransom for the release of the kidnapped ranges between 1000-1500 Turkish liras.
