The comprehensive statistical report on violations in Daraa governorate during February 2022
February 2022 witnessed a noticeable rise in assassinations and arrests in Daraa Governorate, within the security chaos that has increased in frequency since the settlement agreement was concluded in July 2018 between the Syrian regime and the opposition factions under Russian auspices.
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The documentation office in the Ahrar Horan Gathering recorded during February the killing of 39 people in Daraa governorate, including two who were killed outside the governorate.
In the details, the office documented the killing of a “civilian” man when an object of war remnants exploded on the military road near the town of Al-Muta’iyah, and the killing of a child after being directly targeted by 13 bullets by an Air Force Intelligence officer, east of the displaced person camp, opposite the Air Force Intelligence branch building in the city of Daraa. Meanwhile, two “non-civilian” gunmen were killed while they were trying to plant an explosive device on the “Damascus-Daraa” international highway near the town of Umm Al-Mayathen.
The Violations Documentation Office in the Ahrar Houran Gathering counted 35 assassination attempts and assassination attempts, which resulted in the killing of 26 people, 10 injuries of varying degrees, and 8 assassination attempts survived.
As for the distribution of the assassination deaths, 16 people were killed (classified as civilians), distributed as follows: a member of the Daraa Central Committee responsible for the western countryside of Daraa, a former media activist, and a former head of a local council who worked as a nurse after the settlement, and 5 people who had never before Belonging to any military party, a person accused of working in the drug trade, a former leader of ISIS who did not join any military formation after the settlement, in addition to 7 former members of the Free Army factions who did not join any military formation after the settlement.
While 10 people (classified as non-civilian) were killed, distributed as follows: a leader and two former members of the opposition factions who were involved after the settlements within the Military Intelligence Division, an element working within a local group affiliated with the Eighth Brigade of the Russian-backed Fifth Corps, and two elements working after the settlement within the Daraa Central Committee in the western countryside of the province, in addition to a leader and a former member of the opposition factions working within local groups opposed to the Syrian regime, and two members working within ISIS.
According to the office, most of the assassination operations and attempts that were documented in February were carried out by “shooting” with Russian “Kalashnikov” machine guns, except 6 operations using an “improvised device.”
It is customary for no party to claim responsibility for the assassinations that take place in Daraa Governorate, to record these operations under an unknown name, at a time when the people and activists of the province accuse the security services of the Syrian regime and Iranian militias through their recruitment of local militias of being behind many of the assassinations, which affect Mostly opponents of the regime and the Iranian expansion project in the region.
The office recorded the killing of three regime forces, including an officer with the rank of "Major", as a result of being targeted with direct bullets by unknown persons in Daraa Governorate.
The office also documented the killing of two “lieutenant” officers from Daraa governorate in the ranks of the regime forces during armed clashes, one of whom was killed in the city of As-Suwayda and the other in the countryside of Aleppo.
In the Criminal Division, the office documented the killing of 4 “civilians” as a result of being targeted by a gunshot, two of the following clan disputes, one while carrying out acts of theft, and one accused of working in witchcraft and sorcery.
Forced Hiding:
During February, the office documented the arrest of 43 people by the regime forces in Daraa governorate, including two women and a child, 14 of whom were released during the same month.
Military Security was responsible for the arrest of 19 people, while Air Force Intelligence arrested 11 people, Criminal Security 5 people, Political Security 1 person, State Security 2 people, in addition to 5 others whom the security services did not know who detained them.
According to the office, it documented 10 raids in Daraa governorate during February. The first operation was carried out by Air Force Intelligence forces in the town of Giza, which resulted in the arrest of a young man, and the second was carried out by elements affiliated with the criminal security in the village of al-Katiba, north of Khirbet Ghazala, which resulted in the arrest of 4 young men, including three who work. Within the Eighth Brigade of the Russian-backed Fifth Corps, the third was carried out by members of the Military Security in the city of Nawa, which resulted in the arrest of a young man, and the fourth was carried out by a local group affiliated with the Military Security in the town of Taybeh, which resulted in the arrest of 9 people, 7 of whom were released during the same month after paying sums of money. The fifth was carried out by Air Force Intelligence forces in the town of Al-Nuaima, which resulted in the arrest of a man, and two raids carried out by the Military Security in the town of Atman and its surroundings, which resulted in the arrest of 5 people, and an operation by Air Force Intelligence forces south of the city of Al-Harak resulted in the arrest of 6 people from the tribes. Displaced Bedouins in the area and an operation carried out by members of the State Security branch in the city of Jassim did not result in arrests, and the last operation carried out by members of the State Security in the city of Inkhil resulted in About the arrest of a young man.
Lawyer Assem Al-Zoubi, director of the Violations Documentation Office in the Ahrar Horan Gathering, indicates that most of the arrests that were documented in February were carried out through raids carried out by the regime’s security services in Daraa governorate, explaining that the number of detainees in the governorate is greater than the documented number. The office has, given the reluctance of many families of detainees to provide information about their children due to security concerns, due to the secure grip of the regime’s security services in the governorate, stressing that the process of checking detainees’ data is carried out continuously in the office.
The office recorded two cases of kidnapping a doctor and a girl during February in Daraa governorate, who was released during the same month.
The office also recorded two cases of release of two abductees, one a doctor and the other a child, after months of their detention, after their families paid large ransoms to the kidnapper.
