The Afrin-Syria Human Rights Organization has revealed that the fate of six Kurdish citizens remains unknown after their abduction in Tal Rifaat, northern Aleppo countryside, alongside the detention of another young man in Afrin, amid concerns of severe human rights violations.
According to the organization, five Kurdish citizens were kidnapped from their homes in Tal Rifaat on December 2, 2024, following the city’s occupation by Turkish forces and their allied Syrian opposition factions, known as the “Joint Force,” as part of an operation dubbed “Dawn of Freedom.” Elements from the Turkish-backed “Hamzat” and “Amshat” factions transferred the abductees to the Civil Registry Department building in Tal Rifaat, where they remain arbitrarily detained to this day. The organization expressed fears that they may be subjected to beatings, torture, and mistreatment in violation of international human rights laws and conventions.
The kidnapped individuals are:
Jaafar Ibrahim Mustafa (53 years old)
Ibrahim Jaafar Mustafa (29 years old)
Zardasht Ibrahim Mustafa (40 years old)
Maher Mustafa Mustafa (24 years old)
Mohammed Ali Mustafa Hambasho (60 years old)
All of them are originally from the town of Maabatli in the occupied Afrin countryside and were forcibly displaced to Tal Rifaat after the occupation of Afrin by Turkey and its supported Syrian factions on March 18, 2018.
In a separate incident in Tal Rifaat on the same day, December 2, 2024, a young man, Sheikh Hamza Alo Khalil, from the village of Zaara (Bulbul sub-district), was abducted during the “Joint Force” (Hamzat and Amshat) incursion into the city. His fate remains unknown to date. He, too, is among the displacees from Afrin who have resided in Tal Rifaat since March 2018.
In a related development, the organization reported that , the military police detained Rudin Mustafa Shaban, a resident of the town of Badina (Rajo sub-district) in Afrin countryside, at a checkpoint near the Kokana village intersection (Maabatli sub-district). He was arrested while visiting his family, despite residing in Afrin city, on charges of dealing with the former administration.
The Afrin-Syria Human Rights Organization has called for the immediate disclosure of the detainees’ and abductees’ fates and their release, warning of the worsening humanitarian situation in the occupied areas due to these practices.
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