On 11 November 2017, several Syrian civil organizations published a joint statement in which they strongly condemned the kidnapping of the teacher Mohammad Mustafa, Director of the Free Education Directorate in Aleppo province, after his departure from the Directorate headquarters in western Aleppo.
Syrians for Truth and Justice (STJ) pursued the matter further and was able to reach Anas Mustafa, brother of the kidnapped Mohammad Mustafa, who gave additional information about his brother's abduction, where he said in his testimony:
"My name is Anas Mustafa, brother of the abducted teacher Mohammed Mustafa, and uncle of the two other kidnapped Al-hasan Ahmed Mustafa and Hasan Muhaimed (the latter were with Mohammed during the abduction). On 1 November 2017, we lost contact with Mohammad Mustafa, where he left the Directorate of Education ", under the control of Nour al-Din al-Zenki faction, and has not come home since then. We started asking for him everywhere (in stations, hospitals, organizations…) but we have not been able to obtain any information, until we have communicated with agents of Nour al-Din al-Zenki Movement, who told us that he is under their custody, but the movement did not officially claim responsibility for the abduction.
We then tried to communicate with leaders of Nour al-Din al-Zenki Movement to get more details and to know why he was taken, but they did not respond to us at all.”
About a week after the kidnapping, a person named Hussam Atrash, one of the movement's leaders, announced in his Telegram Channel that Mohammad Mustafa was imprisoned in Nour al-Din al-Zenki Movement jails, on several charges including "financial and administrative corruption" based on Provincial Council’s reports. Informed that these cases had been brought to "Accountability Commission" of Syrian Opposition Interim Government’s Prime Minister, which sent inspectors to investigate the matter, and after months of research they convicted persons affiliated to Nour al-Din al-Zenki Movement of corruption and acquitted Mohammad Mustafa, which led to the movement’s curse. "
Image shows Hussam Ibrahim Atrash’s accusation to Mohammad Mustafa of intending to make Aleppo’s Directorate of Education affiliated to ”Government Security” formed by Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham – Al-Nusra Front formerly.
Photo credit: Hussam Ibrahim Atrash’s Telegram Channel
Anas added,
"They did not allow us to visit the three abducts. However, 15 days after kidnapped, the lawyer Mazen Juma’a, who works for Nour al-Din al-Zenki Movement posted on his Twitter account a photo of Mohammad, and wrote: teacher Mohammad is detained on charges of wasting public money and "communicating with bodies from outside Aleppo Province to make the Directorate affiliated to them."
The lawyer Juma’a tweeted another photo showed the other abductees (Al-hasan Ahmed Mustafa and Hasan Muhaimed) and wrote that they are accused of “resisting the patrol", which attempted to arrest teacher Mohammad.
The kidnapping occurred in the evening, without cause, arrest warrant or the like, where they considered themselves a regular patrol and accused the two youths of resisting it.
Teacher Mohammad Mustafa was then transferred to al-Qasimia court and is now being investigated for the charges against him, and we were allowed to visit him afterwards. While the other two men are still detained to date (November/24/ 2017). "
Image (1), shows a photo tweeted by the lawyer Mazen Juma’a's after his visit to Mohammad Mustafa.
Image (2) shows another photo tweeted by the lawyer Mazen Juma’a, where all the detainees appear.