On November 22, 2025, activists and local sources reported that members of the joint force “Al-Hamzat and Al-Amshat” – affiliated with the Syrian Army under the interim authority “Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham” – arrested the Kurdish citizen Hassan Abdo Rahmo (62 years old) from his village in Burj Al-Qas, in the Shayrawa sub-district of the Afrin countryside, northern Syria.
The arrest was made on the pretext of his son’s previous dealings with the “Autonomous Administration,” as the son had previously worked in the field of teaching within it and is currently in hiding. Hassan Rahmo was taken to the military prison in Azaz, and the joint force demanded that his relatives pay a financial ransom of ten thousand dollars in exchange for his release.
This incident occurs within the context of the ongoing spiral of violence in the Afrin region, which includes killing, kidnapping, torture, and the imposition of levies on civilians, amidst an absence of justice and accountability and the spread of security chaos since the Turkish occupation of the predominantly Kurdish Afrin region on March 18, 2018, and the displacement of more than 400,000 of its original Kurdish inhabitants.
