📍 Location: Aleppo – Al-Ashrafieh Neighborhood

One of the terrorist operatives affiliated with the Ministry of Defense factions of the interim government (the de facto authority) has been identified as having participated in a systematic campaign of arbitrary arrests targeting Kurdish civilian youths, carried out without any legal basis and solely on the grounds of their ethnic identity.

👤 Name of the terrorist operative:
Yasser Al-Ahmad

🔴 Documented violations include:
• Arbitrary arrest of Kurdish civilians solely due to their ethnic background.
• Physical and verbal abuse inflicted on detainees.
• Forcing detainees to bark and engage in degrading and humiliating acts, reflecting a criminal pattern previously documented in the Syrian coast and in As-Suwayda.

🛑 Public endorsement of violations and prayers for the perpetrators — societal legitimization of crime

🧾 Examples of inciting and hate speech found in comments (quoted verbatim for documentation purposes):
• “Remember, my son, the mother is like the homeland: she carries you, feeds you, and gives you water — and if she gets angry, she beats you. Do you want a state or chaos?”
• “Hit the face, hero, not the leg.”
• “May no one bark except them, the boya group.”
• “God bless the young men, may God strengthen you, protect you, and bless you.”
• “It turns out the Kurds know how to bark more than the Alawites.”
• “May your religion be victorious.”

❗Legal and human rights significance:
These comments constitute additional evidence of an inciting and enabling environment that actively encourages the commission of serious violations and contributes to the normalization of violence and hate speech against a specific civilian group, in clear violation of international human rights law and international humanitarian law, and reinforce individual and collective responsibility for incitement and indirect participation in crimes.