Foreign forces in Syria arrest 1,109 people in 2023
QAMISHLI, Syria (North Press) – Foreign forces conflicting in Syria arrested 1,109 Syrians in 2023, according to the Monitoring and Documentation Department of North Press.
The arrested people included 107 military personnel, 1,002 civilians, 118 of them are women and 39 are children.
The annual report of the Monitoring and Documentation Department highlighted that in 2023 the Turkish forces arrested 971 people, 626 of them were arrested by the Turkish border guards while trying to get into Turkish territories, seeking asylum.
Among the arrested people, there are four military personnel and 622 civilians, including 85 women and 33 children.
Turkish intelligence transported 208 civilians, including 25 women and three children, most of them on charges of belonging to the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and collaboration with the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, to prisons on its territories.
The Iranian-backed militia arrested 128 individuals, including 50 military personnel and 78 civilians. Some of them received charges of spying or carrying out attacks against the Iranian-backed militia.
While Russian forces arrested a military personnel on charges of taking photos of Russian military posts and headquarters.
The militia of the Lebanese Hezbollah arrested nine people, including five military personnel and four civilians, including a woman, on charges of trying to poison the food of Hezbollah militia.
The Monitoring and Documentation Department said that there are six secrete Iranian prisons in Syria, three in Homs and its countryside, three in Deir ez-Zor, and another in Damascus.
Those prisons witness the worst kinds of torture, as the detainees face electricity shocks, burning, whipping and others.