Prominent Sheikh Hindawi has been missing since being arrested The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights stated that the fate of the director of the Umayyad Mosque in Aleppo, Sheikh Yusuf al-Hindawi is still unknown. The Sheikh was arrested by the Air Force Intelligence branch on September 4 2013, for refusing to hang portraits of the Syrian regime president, Bashar al-Assad, on the walls of the mosque.
Sheikh Hindawi is a senior religious figure in the city of Aleppo. Where he was not loyal to the regime, he committed no violent actions against it.
The Syrian Observatory called upon the regime authorities to immediately release Sheikh Yusuf al-Hindawi, and all prisoners of conscience,
Meanwhile, 42 people, including two women and six children were confirmed dead on Saturday, in various clashes across Syria.
Three members of the regime forces were killed during the dismantling of an explosive device in the city of Jaramana, at dawn on Saturday. Eight citizens were injured during the explosion of the bomb.
In the province of Aleppo, two men were killed and others injured in violent clashes in the vicinity of Aleppo International Airport. Villages and towns across Syria were bombed heavily by regime forces.
The Free Syrian Army (FSA) shelled sites for government forces in Sidi Miqdad in the town of Babila, and clashed with them in the vicinity of the town of New Artouz. The FSA also clashed with forces at Al Fadel (west of the capital Damascus), resulting in the deaths of more than 18 opposition fighters. According to the Local Coordination Committees in Syria, the FSA targeted a vehicle belonging to Lebanese Hezbollah, killing everyone inside, including a mother and her four children.