Baladi News – (Ahmad Abdul Haq)
Assad's regime forces at the two checkpoints of the military security in Adra stopped 10 buses heading from Idlib to Damascus on Saturday and detained all the civilian passengers abroad, Syrian Commission for Releasing Detainees (SCRD) said in a statement.
The statement reported that the civilians were held in the driving school that is part of the checkpoint supervised by Brigadier General Ali Habeeb in very difficult and humiliating circumstances that did not exclude children, women, or old or sick individuals. The checkpoint also seized the moneys and IDs of the detainees, although all the passengers are either working under the regime or neutrals who have to go do Damascus in order to receive treatments at Damascus hospital or specialist clinics.
The commission indicated that such mass detentions are performed under the orders of the highest military command based on a hidden-goals plan that reveals the way the regime deals with a group of the Syrian people as hostages whereas international sources refer to creating political solutions guaranteeing the free movement of individuals among Syrian areas and cities and the release of detainees, which reassured people to travel towards the regime-held areas.
The commission called upon all relevant organizations and committee and the United Nations to provide an international protection for the detainees and work on releasing them as well as stop criminal practices against civilians and sick individuals traveling to Damascus for treatment and abstain from taking them as hostages in the service of purposes.
It also referred to the lack of credibility of the regime in finding a humanitarian solution to the case of prisoners and detainees, which requires international resolutions binding all parties to release the prisoners and detainees and provide for the free movement of individuals in Syria without being detained in order to build confidence among Syrians in a just political solution.