The Syrian Network for Human Rights documented no less than 197 cases of arbitrary arrest, including 11 children and 3 women, during the month of July 2023, confirming that the regime forces arbitrarily arrested civilians who criticized and talked about the deterioration of the service and economic situation and corruption in the areas under its control.
In its monthly report, SNNHR recorded no less than 197 cases of arbitrary arrest/detention, including 11 children and 3 women, 167 of which were cases of enforced disappearance.
At least 94 of them were at the hands of the regime forces, including 2 children and 3 women, and 54 cases, including 9 children, were at the hands of the Syrian Democratic Forces, while 28 cases were recorded at the hands of Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham, and 21 cases at the hands of all armed opposition factions/the National Army.
The report reviewed the distribution of arbitrary arrest/detention cases in July according to governorates, and data analysis showed that the highest number of arbitrary arrest/detention cases was in Aleppo governorate, followed by Rif Dimashq, followed by Idlib and Deir Ezzor, followed by Damascus, then Hasakah, then Hama, then Daraa.
The Syrian Network said that the detainees were arrested against the backdrop of participation in the popular movement towards democracy in Syria, and within any activity that was political, human rights, media, relief, and similar to them, the security branches direct the vast majority of those and extract multiple charges from them under coercion, intimidation and torture, and this is written down through security reports.
These reports are referred to the Public Prosecution, and then the majority of them are transferred to either the Terrorism Court or the Military Field Court. These courts do not meet the minimum requirements of fair courts, and are closer to a military and security branch.
The report considered that the issue of the detainees and the forcibly disappeared is one of the most important human rights issues, in which no significant progress has been made, despite its inclusion in several UN Security Council and UN General Assembly resolutions, in Kofi Annan's plan, in the statement on the cessation of hostilities in February 2016 and in Security Council Resolution No. 2254 of December 2015.
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