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A Turkish intelligence-affiliated individual physically assaulted a Kurdish civilian from the village of Dike in the Bulbul sub-district, claiming he had blocked the path of his vehicle in the center of the occupied city of Afrin.
According to our correspondent, the armed assailant attacked the young man, Salam Bilal (23 years old), at the Newroz roundabout on the past Friday, October 13. He struck him with the butt of his firearm, alleging that Salam had not given way to his car. He forcibly took him to the police station and detained him for three days while subjecting him to torture. Salam was finally released on Monday, October 16.
Islamic militias under the banner of the “Syrian National Army,” operating under various aliases, continue to assault civilians and infringe upon their rights without ethical or legal restraint in the midst of the security breakdown afflicting the occupied regions in northern Syria.
In a similar incident on October 13, 2023, a leader of an armed group within Al-Jabha al-Shamiya militias, known as “Odai Sijjo,” assaulted and physically harmed the minor, Mohammed Dibo al-Najjar, from the city of Mare’, accusing him of stealing olive crops in the village of Sijjo in the occupied Azaz district
