A young man killed in the fourth killing by torturing case in Turkey-controlled Afrin
Northern Aleppo – North-Press Agency
The Turkey-backed armed opposition militias have killed the young man “Hamada Hussein” on Monday, under torture, a resident of the village of Balaliku, in Rajo district, in northern Syrian-Kurdish region of Afrin, which is now occupied by the Turkish army.
Hamada was taken by the Military Police of the Syrian opposition National Army (composed of many Turkey-backed Islamist militias) about two weeks ago to Rajo prison, along with some of his relatives from the village, to be subjected to severe torture, which resulted in his death, two days ago.
The Military Police accused Hamada of previously dealing with the Autonomous Administration. Knowing that these police members who belong to the Syrian opposition armed groups, have become known in the Euphrates Shield and the Olive Branch forces’ held areas as an “infamous” security branch.
Some photographs obtained by North-Press show signs of torture and bruises on the back and legs of the killed young man, whose family received his body from prison after he was brutally killed.
According to media sources, since the Turkish army and the armed opposition groups had took control over the Kurdish region of Afrin, 30 cases of killing under torture were recorded in those groups’ prisons, four of them within two weeks, in addition to the abduction of hundreds of civilians and demanding ransom money.
Sultan Murad, a Turkmen-dominated militia, has abducted several civilians last week, including Mustafa Mustafa, from Shekhutkeh village in Bulbul district, and Imad Juneid, from Burj Abdalo village in Sherawa district, and Dr. Sabri Hannan, the director of Jihan Hospital, from Badino village in Rajo district.
The Turkish army and its affiliated armed opposition groups had launched a military assault which was named “Olive Branch” to invade the Syrian-Kurdish region of Afrin early last year, where they managed to control the region after fierce battles against the local forces of People’s Protection Units (YPG) in March of the same year.