The media activist Ahmad Sofi, reporter at ARK Media Foundation, member of Kurdistan Democratic Party, from al Malekiya city in Hasaka governorate northern suburbs, arrested by Self- Management forces (Kurdish Democratic Union Party- PKK branch) as he was passing a checkpoint in the road linking al Qaser village and al Malekiya city in Hasaka governorate northern suburbs, and taken to unknown place, on October 22, 2018.