New batch of detainees released as settlement agreement stipulated in Syria’s Daraa

DARAA, Syria (North Press) – On Tuesday, Syrian security forces released a new batch of detainees in Syria’s south city of Daraa. 

25 prisoners from Daraa were released in the Provincial Council hall, local sources told North Press.

Major General Mufid Hassan, Head of Security and Military Committee in Southern Region, and Hussein al-Rifa’i, Secretary of Daraa Branch for the Ba’ath Arab Socialist Party attended the ceremony of the detainee’s release.

Major General Lo’ay Kharita, the governor of Daraa, Brigadier Oqab Saqr, head of Security State Department, Bassam al-Omari, the Attorney General in Daraa and other officers of Russian Military Police also attended the ceremony.  

In mid-November, the Syrian security forces released the fifth batch consisted of 20 detainees from Daraa city in the Provincial Council hall.

The new released batch is the sixth of its kind.

On October 27, North Press released a report detailing the item to release the detainees and uncover the fate of the missing; the item that is yet to be implemented in Daraa’s settlement agreements.   

Families of the prisoners in Daraa suffer from hard livelihood conditions amid the continual arrest of their sons and the refrain of Syrian security forces from disclosing their fate.  

Families of the detainees pay large sums of money to government officers hoping to get information disclosing the whereabouts of their beloved ones.

Reporting by Ihsan Muhammad