Syria’s Idlib undergoes security alert after arrest of young man
IDLIB, Syria (North Press) – The city of Idlib, northwest Syria, witnessed on Wednesday restricted security alert by security body of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS, formerly al-Nusra Front) on the back of attacking the civil court by some residents, retaliating the arrest of a young man.
A well informed source told North Press that the HTS security body, bears the symbol “107”, raided the house of a young man, who hails from Hama, and arrested him under the pretext of verbal abuse and insulting Abu Mohammad al-Julani, leader of the HTS.
The source added that the HTS militants, after hitting the young man and his family, kicked them out of the house, and then they arrested and accompanied him to the civil court.
This practice pushed dozens of Hama resident, including a number of the HTS militants, to head to the court, trying to storm it in an attempt to set the young man free.
The HTS, through its security apparatuses, empties houses, whose owners are abroad, of the IDPs in order for its militants to reside in, claiming that they have the right to settle in these houses.
The young man’s uncle was also arrested by the HTS, in addition to threatening his wife and relatives never come back to the house that becomes its.
Other sources reported that the HTS has ramped up security restrictions in Idlib, deployed mobile checkpoints, empowered the permanent ones, and ramped up checkups in light of the current tension between the HTS and the IDPs from Hama in Idlib.