Afrinpost – Special
The kidnapped Kurdish women in Marata prison demanded that their families use all means to save them from the tragic conditions they are suffering from in Marata prison, after more than two years have passed since their abduction by the Turkish occupation militias linked to the Muslim Brotherhood organization.
Commenting on the fate of the Kurdish abductees who appeared in a video clip that was leaked when armed settlers stormed the headquarters of the “Hamzat” militia in the center of Afrin at the end of May this year, the spokesman for the human rights organization, lawyer Ibrahim Sheikho, said to “Afrinpost”: “Despite the meeting of the people of the kidnapped women with the Turkish governor and the pursuit of their release, but nothing has been achieved on the ground, in addition to the visit of some of them by their families in Marata prison in Afrin city and conveying the picture of the suffering they live and asking their families to take them out by any means, due to the ill treatment they are subjected to in the prison and what makes the matter worse the arrival of the kidnapped’s families to a stage where it is forbidden to ask about them, which portends an unknown and bad fate for those abducted and arbitrarily detained women, if it is true.
Sheikho added: “The violations and crimes committed against women in Afrin region are continuing and increasing continuously, day after day, as the latest statistics have reached the number of kidnapped and forcibly disappeared women in the prisons of the Turkish occupation and the Syrian armed factions affiliated with it to more than (1000) kidnapped persons, and some of them have been released in exchange for certain financial ransoms by the armed factions and material fines by the Turkish occupation courts
The Kurdish rights activist confirmed: “The fate of more than 400 kidnapped persons remains unknown until now, especially those women who recently appeared in the prisons of Hamzat, who were found after clashes between the aforementioned faction and armed elements from Ghouta, and after that they were handed over to the Military Police faction, who in turn returned them to the Hamzat faction.
The fate of the kidnapped Kurdish women was revealed for the first time at the headquarters of the “Hamzat” militia on May 28, 2020, after settlers from eastern Ghouta stormed the militia headquarters located in the former Asayish center, against the background of the killing of a person from Eastern Ghouta running a shop, who refused to sell a militia member by debt.
