Jan 04 2021
Activists report Muhammad Jassim Abu Amsha’s militiamen continue to practice violations and abuses against Kurdish and Arab civilians in Shiye town of Afrin region in Syrian Kurdistan. The Human Rights Organization in Afrin documented that Al-Amshat militiamen beat and assaulted women and elderly women. In addition to the thefts that take place during the day.
Activists said today, January 4, 2021: Militiamen of Sultan Suleiman Shah al-Amshat, led by Muhammad al-Jassim, nicknamed Abu Amsha, at noon on Thursday 24/12/2020, stole home furniture belonging to the citizen Ibrahim Murad, nicknamed (Bozik), by a truck car located in front of the station Fuel – (Kochar station), in front of the Turkish soldiers and the militia leaders, among them, within the so-called “Restitution of Rights and Grievances” committee, while the family were out of their house and went to the olive fields to collecting the remaining olives.
The organization continued: The so-called Muhammad al-Jassim, nicknamed Abu Amsha, and his members were not satisfied with theft, plunder, and imposing a royalty and ransom on the indigenous Kurdish population, but he went beyond all that and also attacked his members, one of them called – Mamdouh – who was arrested along with a number of other militia members and raiding his house and searching it under the pretext of contacting the hostile authorities and assaulting his wife Suaad with the soles of a firearm (pistol) and dragging her in the street and hitting the old woman in the house, in addition to the severe beating of Farid bin Ziyad’s wife, she was subsequently transferred to a hospital in Afrin to receive treatment, and another officer was handcuffed under the pretext of refusing to implement his decisions to leave the house
Human Rights Organisation in Afrin.