{"id":66827,"date":"2021-10-27T10:14:27","date_gmt":"2021-10-27T10:14:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/npasyria.com\/en\/?p=66827"},"modified":"2021-10-27T10:14:28","modified_gmt":"2021-10-27T10:14:28","slug":"detainees-missing-peoples-case-not-solved-despite-settlement-in-syrias-daraa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/npasyria.com\/en\/66827\/","title":{"rendered":"Detainees, missing people\u2019s case not solved despite settlement in Syria\u2019s Daraa"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

DARAA, Syria (North Press) \u2013<\/strong> Samya Adnan, a pseudonym for a woman from the town of al-Hirak in the eastern countryside of Daraa, south Syria, is trying to contact anyone who can help her reveal the fate of her son who has been detained by Syrian government forces for two months, but all in vain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Early in September, government forces arrested her son in the eastern countryside of Daraa, and he was transferred to the Political Security Apparatus in the center of Daraa city.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When she went to the government\u2019s security department more than once, the officers denied, according to what the mother told North Press, that they had her son’s name, but after paying a bribe to an officer there, he told her that the young man was transferred to the capital, Damascus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The mother indicated that her son has his status settled a since 2018, and has not joined any military entity. He worked as a daily laborer and has three children whom she and his wife take care of.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The woman has another son who is a soldier accomplishing the compulsory military service within the ranks of the government forces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She added, she has no breadwinner except her detained son, and every time she asks about him, they ask for sums of money that \u201cI cannot afford.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With the end of the settlements in Daraa governorate and the passage of more than a month and a half from the implementation of the agreement between the notables of the governorate and government forces sponsored by Russia, the implementation of the release of detainees clause and clarifying the fate of the missing, which was scheduled to start five days after the implementation of the agreement, has not yet begun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nothing new<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Following 80-day-seige, a number of Daraa\u2019s notables and government forces, in the presence of a number of Russian officers, reached a ceasefire agreement on September 5<\/a>, including handing over weapons and deploying government security points in the towns of Daraa governorate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This agreement came after the failure of the agreement held between the Central Committee in Daraa al-Balad region and the government forces, since Daraa al-Balad, Tariq al-Sad neighborhood and the Camps were subjected to heavy bombardment by the Iranian-backed factions, which were completely besieging the area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During the siege, Daraa al-Balad and the besieged neighborhoods were subjected to violent bombardment, which led to the death of twenty civilians, in addition to extensive destruction of infrastructure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On September 6, the implementation of the agreement began in Daraa al-Balad, where the security services of the government forces, accompanied by the Russian MP and the Central Committee in Daraa al-Balad, entered the city\u2019s neighborhoods and established a center to settle the status of wanted persons there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On October 25<\/a>, Syrian security forces ended the settlement process for hundreds of wanted people in Daraa city and its countryside except Busra al-Sham, Ma\u2019arba town and few surrounding villages.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A source of the Central Committee in Daraa al-Balad preferred not to be named, said that “there is nothing new regarding the detainees’ issue.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The source added that the security committee of the government forces, despite its pledge to the Russian MP to clarify the fate of the detainees and release them, “it is still procrastinating this file.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The number of detainees who joined the opposition has reached 1,059 since the summer of 2018, and most of them hold settlement cards, according to a previous statement by a member of the Martyrs\u2019 Documentation Office in Daraa, Muhammad al-Shara\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On June 27, a general amnesty 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\u2019 Documentation Office in Daraa.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The office\u2019s database records more than 6,800 people from Daraa, who are detained, missed or forcibly disappeared, according to al-Shara\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The office also documented the killing of 25 people under torture in the government forces\u2019 prisons during 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n