Government forces continue to arrest residents in south Syria’s Daraa
DARAA, Syria (North Press) – There is no clear or specific reason for the continuation of the arrests that have not been stopped since the summer of 2018 until today by the government forces, Muhammad al-Shara’, member of the Martyrs’ Documentation Office (affiliated with opposition) in Daraa, southern Syria, said on Saturday.
Yesterday, on Friday, the military checkpoints of the government forces arrested a number of residents in separate areas of Daraa governorate.
The arrests come despite the agreement that was reached between the parties to the conflict in Daraa under Russia’s guarantee that included handing over weapons, settling the conditions of those who were wanted by the Syrian government, and setting up checkpoints in the besieged neighborhoods.
Local sources said that the young man Khaled al-Hariri was arrested by the Air Force Intelligence checkpoint between the town of Da’el and the town of Atman in the middle countryside of Daraa.
Fadi Mamdouh al-Jarad and his son Ala’ were also arrested at a military checkpoint on the outskirts of al-Hara town in the northwestern countryside of Daraa.
“The number of detainees, who previously worked within the opposition ranks, has reached 1,059 since the summer of 2018, and most of them hold settlement cards,” al-Shara’ told North Press.
“Seven women from Daraa governorate were also arrested,” he added.
He pointed out that the Military and Criminal Security Branches of the government forces “are responsible for the arrests in the governorate.”
On June 27, a collective pardon was issued against 100 detainees from Daraa, and the total number of those released since the summer of 2018, reached 192, according to the Martyrs’ Documentation Office in Daraa.
The office’s database records more than 6,800 people from Daraa, who are detained, missed or forcibly disappeared, according to al-Shara’.
The office also documented the killing of 25 people under torture in the government forces’ prisons during 2021.