A 15-year-old male child, named as Bandar Adnan al Sakran, from al Ezba village in the northern suburbs of Deir Ez-Zour governorate, was arrested on September 3, 2021, by gunmen affiliated with Syrian Democratic Forces in a raid on his family’s home in the village and taken to an undisclosed location.
SNHR notes that no member of the boy’s family was informed of his arrest or whereabouts, while he was prevented from contacting his family. SNHR fears that he will be subjected to torture and ultimately classified as forcibly ‘disappeared’, like approximately 85 percent of all detained persons in Syria.
We can confirm that at least 3,817 Syrian citizens are still detained or forcibly disappeared in the SDF’s detention centers, constituting a grave threat to the detainees’ wellbeing, given the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic.
