The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights

For ransoms | Gang kidn*aps young man in Al-Suwaydaa and blackmail his family

An armed gang kidnapped a young man in Shahba City in Al-Suwaydaa, where the young man lives in Al-Nabak City in Rif Dimashq.

Members of the gang demanded 400,000,000 Syrian Liras to release him, where they tortured the kidnapped young man and sent a video to his family to pressure them to pay the ransoms.

On August 1, members of an armed gang kidnapped a girl in front of a restaurant in Da’il Town in northern Daraa countryside and took her to an unknown destination, where the gang contacted with the girl’s parents and demanded 75,000 USDs as ransoms to release her.

Cases of kidnaps and blackmailing have been increasing in regime areas.