International community is responsible for events in Syria’s Hasakah, Syrian politician
RAQQA, Syria (North Press) – The international community and the countries that have nationals with links to the Islamic State (ISIS) imprisoned in detention centers in northeast Syria bear responsibility over the events in the Guweiran prison in Hasakah city, northeast Syria, a political figure said on Monday.
On January 20, around 200 ISIS cell members attacked the al-Sina’a prison in an attempt to break their fellow inmates out of the prison, the General Command of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) announced.
Al-Sina’a prison holds 5,000 ISIS members and the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES) calls the countries to repatriate their citizens and set up an international court to try them.
In an exclusive statement to North Press, Ibrahim al-Qaftan, head of Future Syria Party, said “the presence of ISIS detainees in AANES prisons poses threat to stability in northeast Syria.”
The AANES prisons holds around 15,000 ISIS detainees who hail from up to 60 foreign nationalities in addition to Syrians, according to the AANES data.
“To prosecute ISIS inmates in northeast Syria, an international recognition to the AANES is needed in the first place,” al-Qaftan said.
The problem of ISIS detainees could be solved if a fair court is set up whether the court is based in northeast Syria or outside it, al-Qaftan added.
Al-Qaftan pointed that the Syrian government and Turkey exploit the instability of northeast Syria by Turkish frequent shelling of the regions, and the Syrian government forces withdrawal from Resafa region in Raqqa.
On January 25, the Syrian government forces withdrew from its military points in seven villages in the southwest countryside of Raqqa.