A year and a half after Al Jadi’s abduction, on 20 December 2013, 37-year-old driver Anas Abdallah was driving a truck carrying a tea cargo from Latakia to Homs, when he was stopped at a checkpoint on the road, controlled by members of the Syrian Security Forces and the Popular Committees – local militias supported by the Government. He was immediately arrested and taken to an unknown location. After his disappearance, Anas’ family inquired about his whereabouts in several security branches, but to no avail. The owner of the truck he was driving is also not aware of his fate.

In view of these facts, Alkarama and Human Rights Guardians sent their cases to the United Nations Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances (WGEID), in the hope that it will help shed light on their whereabouts.

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