A Kurdish man was killed and beheaded after being captured while attempting to flee Raqqa due to ongoing attacks.

On January 18, a Kurdish man named Masoud Rashid Mohammed (born in 1982), a cook by profession and originally from the city of Afrin, was ambushed by an armed group affiliated with the new Syrian government in the Mansoura sub-district while trying to escape Raqqa amid the attacks. Masoud had previously been displaced with his family to Aleppo. After being beaten and tortured, he was killed and subsequently beheaded.

Ten days after the incident, his body was found early this morning and laid to rest.

This incident correlates with a rise of grave human rights violations conducted by the Syrian government armed forces and verified incidents by CPT.