Syria.. Arrest of the person responsible for surveillance cameras in Sednaya prison and a field commander

On Friday, Syrian security forces arrested one of the officials responsible for surveillance cameras in the notorious Sednaya prison, and a field commander who participated in many massacres against the people.

This came according to what was reported by the official Syrian News Agency, SANA, from an unnamed source in the Ministry of Interior.

The source said that the Public Security Department arrested “the criminal Muhammad Nour al-Din Shalhoum, in the city of Homs (central) during combing operations.”

She explained that "he is considered one of the officials responsible for the surveillance cameras in Sednaya prison, and he participated in disabling them before the Military Operations Department took control of the area."

International reports indicate that thousands of detainees were killed in an organized and secret manner inside the prison, where the deposed regime carried out mass executions without trials. These reports estimated that the regime executed thousands at a rate of 50 people per week between 2011 and 2015 alone.

After the escape of the deposed President Bashar al-Assad and the control of the Syrian factions over the cities and the opening of prisons, detention centers and security branches and the release of detainees, tens of thousands of detainees remained missing without a trace, with the discovery of mass graves indicating the possibility that the missing are among the dead.

The Syrian Interior Ministry also announced that the General Security Department had “arrested the criminal Saher Al-Naddaf, during combing operations in the city of Homs,” according to SANA.

She pointed out that he is "one of the field commanders who committed crimes against the Syrian people, and participated in many massacres throughout Syrian territory, and is considered one of the remnants of the militias who refused to hand over their weapons and resorted to hiding among civilians."

On Thursday, Syrian security forces began a security combing campaign in Homs province, targeting “war criminals and those involved who refused to hand over their weapons and visit settlement centers,” according to what SANA reported from the Ministry of Interior.

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The #Public_Security_Department arrests the wanted criminal (Mohammed Nour El-Din Shalhoum), one of those who participated in disabling the prison cameras and stealing files for detainees. #Accountability_of_Assad_Shabiha pic.twitter.com/3yRxk0f0nQ

— Syrian Center for Crime Investigation (@C_S_E_C) January 2, 2025

On Friday morning, the Syrian security forces announced the expansion of their operations to include other neighborhoods in the city of Homs.

Since the overthrow of the Assad regime, the Military Operations Administration has opened settlement centers with elements of the ousted regime to hand over their weapons, but the refusal of some of them led to confrontations in a number of the country's governorates.

On December 8, Syrian factions took control of the capital Damascus, days after taking control of other cities, thus ending 61 years of bloody Baath Party rule and 53 years of the Assad family regime.

The next day, the leader of the new Syrian administration, Ahmed al-Sharaa, announced that Mohammed al-Bashir, who had been running Idlib for years, had been tasked with forming a new Syrian government to manage the transitional phase.

(Anatolia)