The seventeenth anniversary of the martyrdom of Farhad Muhammad Ali Dawoud under torture in the regime's prisons

ARK News… The martyr Farhad Muhammad Ali Dawoud, was martyred at the hands of the Assad regime, in the Hasaka cell on April 8, 2004, after he was arrested by the regime's intelligence services in Qamishlo in Syrian Kurdistan due to his active participation in treating the wounded and martyrs of the March 12 uprising in 2004, after a period of 9 days of beatings and severe torture.

The martyr Farhad Muhammad Ali was born in 1975 in the Suez Canal neighborhood in Qamishlo, he studied elementary school in his school and completed his studies until he obtained a high school diploma in the Department of Commerce, but he did not complete his studies because of the Syrian regime law, which had prohibited it and deprived more than 500 thousand Kurdish families of Syrian Kurdistan of the Syrian ID, and they were carrying a card called (Foreigners in Hasaka governorate).

The martyr is from a patriotic Kurdish family, with a tradition in the struggle for the Kurdish issue, he joined the ranks of the Kurdistan Democratic Party - Syria from an early age and worked in the ranks of the party wholeheartedly, and like the rest of his family, they did not spare any effort in serving their issue and their people, he was married and had a daughter named Nisreen, who was five months old when her father was martyred.

In the March 12, 2004 uprising, Farhad participated in it like the rest of the Kurdish youth in Qamishlo and played an active role in transporting the wounded and martyrs during the shooting by the regime's gunmen on the demonstrators through his car, which was a Nissan-pickup), and he did not care about the sound of bullets, but rather contributed with all patriotism and sincerity in helping his Kurdish brothers, what was the reason for his arrest a few days after the uprising.

The regime arrested him, on March 29, 2004, after promises to his family to release him after completing a routine investigation, but the regime did not fulfill its promise, imprisoned the martyr in Hasaka prison, and the regime practiced against him and on top of the detainees the worst types of torture and beatings, with the aim of confessing to making testimony from some of his comrade's demonstrators, but Farhad refused to betray his comrades and chose silence, torture, and martyrdom rather than betraying his Kurdish cause.

According to private information from Farhad's family, and according to eyewitnesses from Hasaka prison, Farhad was martyred on April 6, 2004, but the regime informed the family of his testimony, at dawn on April 8 at 3 in the morning, and he delivered Farhad's body was delivered to his family, and also forced them to bury his pure body at that time fearing from another demonstration against the backdrop of the martyrdom of Farhad.

17 years have passed since Farhad and more than 32 martyrs from Syrian Kurdistan in the uprising and months later also under torture, and the same regime still rules Syria, without the perpetrators and killers being tried or brought to justice.

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