The continuation of the campaign to arrest young people and drive them to compulsory conscription in the cities and towns of Syrian Kurdistan

ARK News… For days, the PYD Asayish has continued its campaign of arresting young men with the aim of driving them into forced recruitment, and has deployed dozens of security checkpoints in the cities and towns of Syrian Kurdistan.

Local sources said that since last Thursday, more than 150 people have been arrested in the city of Hasakah.

The PYD Asayish intensified its patrols on Thursday 6/7/2023 in the city of Derik, closing the main entrances of the city and its market through "detachments", and arrested dozens of young men to force them into conscription.

In the city of Qamishlo, the PYD Asayish began on Wednesday 5/7/2023 a campaign of arbitrary arrests of young people, as they closed the main entrances to the city in addition to closing the entrances to the market, and arrested dozens of young men.

In Manbij, activists called on social media, a few days ago, to organize popular demonstrations and implement a general strike in protest against the Syrian Democratic Forces' launching of intensive recruitment campaigns that affected dozens of young men in the city.

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