syria-un-20140916 15

A/HRC/27/CRP.1 15 The patient from xxxxx, who died next to him, died in the evening and the guards left his body under the interviewee’s bed in the room until the next morning. In the morning, a detainee chosen by the guards came and detached his body from the bed. He put small pieces of sticky tape on his front and hands and wrote on them “Air Force” and a number. He later heard that deceased inmates were taken to Najha cemetery and registered as unknown. He was transferred to the Military Police headquarters in Al Qaboun. He was detained in a small room that could accommodate up to 50 people but which held over 150 detainees. He witnessed the death of two detainees in Al Qaboun. One other detainee from xxxxx went insane and started walking over the other detainees, so they attacked him and almost lynched him. The interviewee was xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx xxxxx sentenced by the Anti-Terrorism Court located in Mezzeh without ever appearing before the tribunal. He was transferred to Adra Prison. The situation in Adra was better. He could receive visits from xxxxx once a week, see a doctor to get treatment for scabies and also could shave and bathe more often. K. The interviewee is an adult male, from Ar Raqqah governorate. He was interviewed on 27 May 2014. The interviewee is a xxxx, and a resident of Tel Akhadr. He became a refugee on xx xxxxx 2014. Tel Akhadr is located seven kilometres to the west of Tel Abyad, in Ar-Raqqah, and is predominantly inhabited by Kurds. Before the conflict, it had a population of about 5,000 people. Approximately 70% of its residents have fled since clashes erupted in the area in July 2013. Until July 2013, the interviewee lived in Tel Abyad. After ISIS defeated the Kurdish forces, the YPG and Jabhat Al-Akrad, ISIS forced thousands of Kurdish civilians to leave Tel Abyad. ISIS fighters made an announcement from the minarets of the local mosques that all Kurds had to leave. He fled with his family by car. They were stopped at the Ain Al-Arous checkpoint where ISIS fighters detained his 13-year-old son for three days. Tel Abyad’s Kurdish residents were forced to leave without taking any of their property. ISIS confiscated his farm and his shop. He has been without a job and penniless since then. Many of the Kurds from Tel Abyad fled to Tel Akhadr, another Kurdish enclave where many of them had relatives. Tel Akhadr was captured by Ahrar al-Sham in approximately August 2013. In January 2014, in-fighting erupted between ISIS and Islamic Front, which included Ahrar al Sham and some other FSA affiliated militias. ISIS took control of all areas in the Tel Abyad countryside. This included the village of Tel Akhadr. In March 2014, clashed intensified between ISIS and YPG in Tel Abyad and extended to countryside west of Tel Abyad. Tel Akhader was close to where clashes were taken place. As the YPG withdrew, ISIS advanced. At about noon on 18 March 2014, ISIS fighters came to Tel Akhadr in three armed vehicles. They took over the mosque and used its minarets to order the Kurdish residents of Tel Akhadr residents to gather at the mosque. There the ISIS fighters gave them an ultimatum: they had two days to leave the village, after which ISIS would return and kill all those who remained. On 20 March, approximately 400 ISIS fighters on twenty armed vehicles surrounded Tel Akhadr and again threatened to kill them if they did not leave. This created a state of terror and panic. All the residents fled. Many became refugees. Others went to Ayn Al-Arab. The humanitarian situation in Ayn Al-Arab is difficult as it is being besieged by ISIS