Release of a Number of Kidnapped Civilians from As-Suwayda Governorate

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The internal security militias of the Thermidor Authority in As-Suwayda managed to release a number of kidnapped civilians, including children and women, a week after their abduction near a checkpoint belonging to the authority’s militias in Daraa Governorate.

The kidnapping occurred as part of the authority’s systematic policy of targeting governorates and regions that reject its rule. The civilians were kidnapped while attempting to cross through the so-called “humanitarian corridor,” which is controlled by the regime’s militias and security agencies.

Notably, the Thermidor Authority did not provide any clear explanation regarding the identity of the kidnappers or the circumstances of the operation, confirming the involvement of regime-affiliated militias in these operations that target civilians on a sectarian basis.

What is even more infuriating is the appearance of the freed women wearing hijab compulsorily, in a blatant violation of women’s freedom and dignity, and an imposition of a reactionary patriarchal ideology aimed at suppressing women and restricting their freedom.

This incident is not isolated but rather part of the systematic policy of the Golani regime to divide Syrian society and fragment it along identity lines, using sectarian violence as a tool of repression and control, at a time when the regime continues to dismantle the Syrian social fabric and reinforce sectarian and ethnic tendencies.

We, at the Front Line, believe that this incident once again confirms the fascist and patriarchal nature of the Golani regime and calls for class and popular revolutionary solidarity to confront these violations and defend freedom and human dignity.