SNA militants shoot Kurdish young man in Syria’s Afrin
AFRIN, Syria (North Press) – Militants of Suleiman Shah Brigade (al-Amshat) shot on Wednesday a Kurdish young man in a village west of the city of Afrin, northwest Syria.
An exclusive source told North Press that the al-Amshat militants raided the house of Amer Kabi, 21, in the village of Kafr Safra, west of Afrin, and shot him, without identifying the charges against him.
Kabi was injured and transferred to Afrin Hospital, and later he was moved to one of their detention centers of the faction in the town of Sheikh al-Hadid, the source noted.
A month and half ago, Kabi was deported from Turkey. Before that, he was arrested on terrorism-related charges, the source added.
The al-Amshat faction has tightened its grip on the residents of Afrin and its countryside following the imposition of sanctions by the US department of the Treasury on its leadership and the Hamza faction.
On August 21, armed militants of the al-Amshat arrested 18 individuals in the towns of Mabata and Sheikh al-Hadid and forcibly evacuated the families of arrestees from 10 houses hours after relatives were detained.
On August 17, the US Treasury Department Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) targeted the Suleiman Shah Brigade and the Hamza Division, as well as their leaders, Mohammad Hussein al-Jassem, his younger brother Walid, and Sayf Boulad Abu Bakr, for committing serious human rights abuses against those residing in Afrin region, particularly the Kurds.