Human rights activists reported that on 13 December 2025, a patrol of the civil police affiliated with Turkish intelligence arrested the citizen Hussein Ahmad Abdullah, aged 38, who belongs to the Arab component and is from the village of Miska Tahtani, which belongs to Jindires in the Afrin countryside in northern Syria, on 4 December 2025.
According to the available information, Hussein Ahmad Abdullah was arrested from inside his home just one day after he sold his land for 10,000 US dollars, in an incident indicating that he was subjected to financial extortion. This arrest constitutes a new episode in a series of repeated arrests that the same citizen has faced over the past years.
The information indicates that Hussein Ahmad Abdullah had previously spent three years in the prisons of Turkey-affiliated factions on charges of working within the institutions of the Autonomous Administration, before being released under the recent amnesty announced following the fall of the former Syrian regime. However, he was rearrested again in May of this year and was not released at that time until after paying a financial ransom of 5,000 US dollars.
This incident coincides with a family record burdened by violations, as his brother Sheikh Mohammad was killed under torture in the prisons of Turkey-affiliated factions in 2020, according to reports by human rights sources.
Reports from the Afrin area indicate that a large number of former detainees who were included in the amnesty following the fall of the former Syrian regime were later subjected to rearrest, with their families being demanded to pay high financial ransoms as a condition for their release, in a recurring pattern of violations affecting the civilian population in the area.
