Islamic groups restrict freedom of speech in Liberated areas

 Islamic groups restrict freedom of speech in Liberated areas, Journalist being arrested for a comment.

One of Shariah's Courts in the western Rural, north Aleppo, has ordered to arrest Media activist "Abdullah Marei" over his criticism to a leader in Islamic group who dominated 'Tambo', small town of Aleppo countryside, and implemented an Islamic Shariah but he turned to be a dictator, no one can criticize or even express.

Marei works "Thi Qar" local weekly where he published a criticized 'al-Ansar' brigade commander "Abu Bakr" in the town Batbo.

 Media and Human Rights Activist in the town of Atareb, Ahmed Hassan Obeid, told Zaman Alwasl" that Abu Bakr filed upon Marei by the Shariah Court of in the western Rural in 'Daret Azza', not filed in the court of Atareb as it should to be according to ' the instructions of the new Islamic mandate in Aleppo countryside', and when we went to the court they expressed surprise at the arrest warrant. "

Local media outlets of Atareb condemned the latest arresting by FSA brigade to citizen journalist and for restricting freedom of speech. They demanded to release Marei and to enforce expression freedom. 

As Syria’s civil war enters its third year, the rebels are struggling to figure out how to govern the large swaths of territory they have seized. In Aleppo, which has no unified rebel command and is riven by factions, the job hasn’t been easy: The city has two rival legal systems, each controlling its own terrain and backed by different militias, NYtimes reported from Aleppo last month. 

 Many members of the Shariah Authority come from the countryside or have ties to the petty bourgeoisie in the cities — socially conservative Sunni traders and merchants. The members of the Integrated Judicial Council, on the other hand, are all part of the urban professional class and were relatively privileged by their relationship with the government prior to the war, NYtimes reported from Aleppo last month. 

And so the question isn’t so much whether Islam will play a central role in postwar Syria: That matter has already been decided by the insurgents’ almost unanimously Sunni character and increasingly religious cast.

Editing by Mohamed Hamdan