Contact with the young man Mohammad Samir Ajib has been lost since the morning of Thursday, 11 December 2025, while he was heading from his village of Fadra, التابعة لناحية البهلولية in the northern Latakia countryside, toward the city of Latakia. The victim hails from the aforementioned area and belongs to the Alawite sect.
According to available information, contact with Mohammad Samir Ajib was cut off while he was on his way to the city of Latakia, and since that time no confirmed information has been available about his fate or whereabouts up to the moment of preparing this report. No official body has issued any clarification regarding the incident.
The incident of losing contact with Mohammad Samir Ajib comes within a broader context of cases of disappearance and undeclared detention that have been recorded recently in various areas of Syria, particularly along the Syrian coast and in the capital Damascus, where multiple families have reported the continued disappearance of their children without receiving official information about their locations or the legal bases related to these cases.
In this context, the abduction of the young man Ali Talal Al-Hassan was recorded on 12 December 2025 in the Kafr Sousa area of the capital Damascus. Surveillance camera footage, according to sources close to the victim, showed four individuals approaching him in front of the Sham City Center and taking him to an unknown destination. Ali Talal Al-Hassan belongs to the Alawite sect, and the identity of the perpetrating party and his fate remain unknown, with no official clarification issued.
Contact was also lost with the young man Jaafar Mohammad Moussa (25 years old) since 7 December 2025, following his departure from his home in the village of Ain Shaqaq in the countryside of Jableh in Latakia Governorate, heading to his workplace. The victim belongs to the Alawite sect. The party responsible for his disappearance is unknown, and no official information has been issued regarding his fate.
These incidents highlight growing human rights concerns regarding the safety of civilians, in light of the absence of official information and the continuation of disappearance cases, alongside reports of escalating targeting of individuals belonging to religious, sectarian, and ethnic minorities, and the accompanying general climate characterized by the growth of hate speech—an issue that calls for effective guarantees to protect civilians and to reveal the fate of the missing.
