NEWS CENTRE – During a raid it carried out in the Tell Aran, eastern countryside of Aleppo, Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) detained 16-year-old Ehmed Hisên Hercê in place of his father Hisên Hercê, whom it could not find.
According to Hawar News Agency (ANHA), during a raid carried out by HTS in the Tell Aran the previous day, a 16-year-old child was detained in place of his father. When a raid was carried out on the Hercê family's home, Ehmed Hisên Hercê, born in 2010, was present in the house. Unable to find his father Hisên Hercê, the transitional government forces detained his son instead.
HTS members also contacted the father by phone, telling him they would release his son on the condition that he turn himself in.