BALADI NEWS
The Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) announced in its report released today that it documented at least 459 cases of arbitrary arrests in April 2019, including 272 cases of enforced disappearance.
Arbitrary arrests are one of the violation which accompanied the Syrian uprising from the start, and these violation are committed by Assad forces and his militias as part of a deliberate and planned strategy, often in a sweeping indiscriminate manner, in order to instill terror and fear into the largest possible number of Syrian people.
The report explains that the SNHR abides by strict standards in evaluating and assessing any incident of arbitrary arrest in order to avoid any faults in recording any incidents of detention, imprisonment, or deprivation of freedom in accordance with international laws and the aforementioned principles on arbitrary arrest.
The report also shows the distribution of cases of arbitrary arrests by governorate, with Aleppo seeing the largest number of arrests documented during this period.
In addition, the report states that at least 147 raids and checkpoints across all Syrian governorates resulted in cases of deprivation of freedom being documented in April, most of which were in the governorates of Deir Ezzor and Damascus Suburbs, with Syrian Regime forces, followed by Syrian Democratic Forces, being responsible for most of the raids.
Lastly, the report emphasizes that children and women should be released, and families and friends should not be taken as prisoners of war.
Souce: SNHR