Mohammed Yahya, the Second Secretary at the Syrian Embassy in the Omani capital, Muscat, continues to obstruct and deny the rights of Syrians, especially those who contributed to the revolutionary movement against Bashar al-Assad, according to three independent testimonies obtained by Zaman al-Wasl.
Yahya is not an emergency or an isolated case within the current diplomatic corps. Rather, he is a recurring example of an employee implementing a systematic policy of punishing anyone who challenged the former regime, even through consular treatment.
The first documented testimony against Mohammed Yahya dates back to 2013, when he was working at the Syrian Embassy in Algeria. At that time, he confiscated the passport of a Syrian citizen, a university graduate who had left Syria via the Salama border crossing in Azaz.
According to his account to Zaman al-Wasl, Yahya addressed him in a sarcastic tone, saying, "Let the opposition benefit you!" He then confiscated his passport and did not return it until five years later because he had left via the Muawad border crossing. After refusing to write reports on opposition figures in the Aleppo countryside, Yahya was promoted in 2018 to the position of Second Secretary at the Syrian Embassy in the Sultanate of Oman. He continued to pursue the same approach, exploiting his position to obstruct legal and official procedures related to Syrian opposition figures, particularly regarding renewal and certification applications.
Zaman Al-Wasl
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