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Raqqa protests against Jabhat al-Nusra

  

'Haquna' Our-Right movement continues its protest for the third day in al-Raqqa with participation of tens of families demanding release the detainees from chambers of Islamic Groups, Jabhat al-Nusra and the ''Islamic State of Iraq and cham''.

Since rebels seized the capital of Raqqa province in northern Syria, they have posted guards at state buildings, returned bread prices to pre-war levels and opened a hotline that residents can phone to report security issues but that ruling style didn't live forever after many abuses of freedoms and crimes were committed by Islamic group controlling the city.

Since months ago, al-Raqq was the first major Syrian city to fall entirely under rebel control, Raqqa was shaping up to be the best test case yet for how opposition fighters will administer territory amid Western concerns over who will fill the vacuum if President Bashar Assad is ousted. While the city's new rulers try to govern, they are struggling with the same divisions that have hampered the rebel movement's effectiveness throughout Syria's civil war, according to AP.

At the same time, they have killed captured security forces in public squares and driven their dead bodies through the streets. The most powerful rebel brigades in the city are extremist Muslims and include Jabhat al-Nusra, which the U.S. government says is linked to al-Qaida.

Since then, the city's rebels have been bedeviled by the same problems that have hindered them elsewhere. Most residents fled during the fighting and have stayed away, fearing the regime attacks that often follow rebel takeovers.

The city currently has two local councils, each run by lawyers who don't like each other, The city still has about 80  rebel groups which make coordination difficult.

 

 Al Nusrah  whipping  a man over adultery charges

 

To be lashed by a whip on back, means that you are implementing Sharia as Salafist group has alleged in al-Tabqa city, affiliated with Raqqa Province, the same city of the provoking YouTube videos recently, where the province is under control of Islamic groups that  aim to found an Islamic State.

"The Rally of Ahrar al-Tabqa'' denounced this act, revealing about the misery situation has hit the city since falling down by the Islamic Battalions.

"My fiancée and I were sitting in the public park of the city at ten o'clock in the morning, when we were arrested by militants of 'Hudhaifah bin Aleman' battalion- the name belongs to Prominent Islamic figure for Sunnis-  accompanied by their commander 'Musa Hassan.'

The young man added: "my fiancée had released after investigating her, they accused me of 'Getting started of adultery, after that they hit me by whip for uncountable lashes without allowing me to speak."

In relevant event, the Kurdish women of Amouda city, north east Syria; have protested in solidarity with the detainees in the PYD prisons.

The Kurdish party that well-known by supporting Assad's regime has accused of arresting many Kurdish activists for their solid position with the revolution.

The Kurdish party is a member of the National Coordination Committee for Democratic Change. Although it is critical of the Assad government, the PYD has been accused by the Syrian opposition of collaboration with the Ba'athist regime, acting as enforcers for Assad in Kurdish areas, silencing critics such as Mashaal Tammo.

Certain Kurdish opposition figures have even claimed that the Syrian Army has handed over control of certain parts of northeastern Syria to the PYD, leading to disputes and clashes between the PYD, the KNC, and the Syrian National Council.  The PYD has accused the SNC as acting as Turkey's henchmen, and due to a long running dispute between the PKK and the KDP, it is also at odds with the KDP supported Kurdish National Council.

PYD is a Syrian Kurdish political party established in 2003 by Kurdish nationalists in northern Syria. The party is affiliated with the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), which is listed and considered a terrorist organization by Turkey, the United States, the European Union and NATO.

 

Editing by  Mohamed Hmadan

Zaman Alwasl
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