The Syrian regime arrested several women on their way back from Idlib to their town in Madaya, in the countryside of Damascus, local activists reported.
Media activist Abdul Wahab Ahmad said that elements from the Fourth Division, an elite force led by Maher al-Assad, had arrested few days ago 16 women from Madaya. He added that they will soon be released since they wrote a pledge not to leave Damascus and its countryside towards any opposition-held areas.
He clarified that regime has been trying to convince the displaced people of Madaya and Zabadani to leave Idlib and return to Damascus countryside in coordination with reconciliation committee which prepares lists for people who want to come back in agreement of the political and military security branches.
Abu Amjad, a displaced person in Idlib said the main reason that people are leaving Idlib back to Damascus countryside is due to the harsh living conditions and lack of jobs as well as the internal fighting between Tahrir al-Sham and Ahrar al-Sham.
Also, people are concerned the International Coalition might target Idlib and become another Mosul.
It is noteworthy that the Syrian Network for Human Rights, said that the arrest of women is the most complex situation during the Syrian revolution, noting that the regime forces currently arrest more than 8,000 women, including 300 children under the age of 18.
Madaya has a population of 40 thousand people and was exposed for several years humanitarian disasters unparalleled by the siege imposed by the regime forces, and Hezbollah militia of Lebanon in early June 2015, and ended with the agreement "which forcibly displaced 4000 residents of Zabadani, Madaya and Biqeen refusing to hold a reconciliation with the regime accompanied by their families to Idlib in April within the so-called four cities agreement.
