According to the organization, Charbel Hammo and Fadi Sahdo have been held in arbitrary detention for nearly a month. The Monitor alleges that on Monday, July 20, 2026, Asayish forces raided the home of Aho Hammo in Qamishli, intimidating residents and family members before detaining him without legal justification.
The following day, Tuesday, July 21, 2026, Aho Hammo's 24-year-old son, Fadi Aho Hammo, a German citizen visiting his family in Syria, was reportedly arrested when he sought information regarding his father's condition, the statement said.
The Assyrian Monitor for Human Rights condemned the detentions as violations of international human rights standards and warned that actions carried out outside independent legal and judicial frameworks contribute to growing fear and instability among the local population.
"The continuation of arbitrary detention practices threatens the security and social fabric of the region," the organization stated, questioning the legal authority under which such arrests are conducted. It further argued that even where legal claims may exist, they cannot justify collective family detentions, home raids, or the arrest of visiting foreign nationals.
The organization also appealed to the Syrian authorities in Damascus to fulfill what it described as their constitutional responsibilities by intervening to end the situation affecting all communities in the governorate.
While officially disbanded, the Kurdish PKK-affiliated group still has influence in the Gozarto region where its members now make up a sizable portion of the security forces.
These latest arbitrary detentions of Assyrians by Kurds continue a pattern of hostility and harassments by the PKK affiliated group that effectively ruled northeastern Syria for more than a decade during the civil war.
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