It has been reported that Ms. Yasmine Al-Amouri was kidnapped along with her child, Elia Al-Hassan, three years old, on the evening of Saturday, 13 December 2025, in the city of Homs in central Syria.
According to the available information, the incident occurred while the victim and her child were on their way from her parents’ home, opposite the Comprehensive Clinics, to her own home in the Karm Al-Louz neighborhood—a distance not exceeding 500 meters. Since the moment of the kidnapping, contact with both of them has been lost, with no information available regarding their fate or the party responsible for the incident.
Yasmine Al-Amouri belongs to the Alawite sect and was accompanied by her minor child at the time of the kidnapping, which doubles the seriousness of the incident and its humanitarian and rights-based dimension, given the targeting of a woman and a child in a civilian setting during an ordinary daily commute.
The kidnapping took place in the evening hours, in a densely populated area within the city of Homs, reflecting the fragility of the security situation and the continued risks of individual targeting, especially against women and children.
This incident comes within a broader context marked by an increase in kidnapping incidents and violations against individuals from the Alawite sect in various areas of Syria. On approximately the following day, contact was lost with the minor Marah Muhannad Darwish (16 years old), who belongs to the same sect, on 14 December 2025 while she was on her way to her grandfather’s home in the Al-Muhajireen neighborhood of Homs, and her fate remains unknown as of the date of preparation of this report.
During the same period, other incidents of kidnapping and arbitrary detention were also recorded, including the case of Yara Salman, who was kidnapped in Latakia in late October 2025 and arbitrarily detained before being released on 14 December 2025, in an incident that raised widespread human rights concerns regarding the targeting of women from minorities and their deprivation of basic legal guarantees.
These incidents reflect a troubling pattern of serious human rights violations, including kidnapping, arbitrary detention, and enforced disappearance, amid the absence of accountability and weak legal protection, threatening the right to liberty and personal security, particularly for women and children belonging to religious and sectarian minorities in Syria.
