Turkish-backed faction sentences man three years imprisonment in Syria’s Afrin
Turkish-backed faction sentences man three years imprisonment in Syria’s Afrin
ALEPPO NORTHERN COUNTRYSIDE, Syria (North Press) – Yesterday, the Afrin court affiliated with the Turkish-backed Military Police faction sentenced a young man from the city of Afrin north of Aleppo, north Syria, to three years in prison.
A local source told North Press that the court had sentenced the 33-year-old Raghib Alo on charges of intelligence contact and affiliation with the Kurdish Protection Units (YPG) and the Autonomous Administration in northeast Syria.
In July 2021, Alo was arrested by the Levant Front (al-Jabha al-Shamiya) faction and was handed over to the Turkish Intelligence to later be put in the Military Police faction’s prison in Afrin, the source added.
The source noted that the Military Police faction had blackmailed his parents by asking them for a big ransom in exchange for their son’s freedom, and due to the parents’ inability to pay the money, he got the three-year sentence.
Afrin has been under the control of Turkey and their affiliated armed opposition factions since March 2018.
The region witnesses frequent kidnappings, arrests and killings, amid the factions’ inability to keep it under control.