#Idlib Protestors Struggle to Keep Momentum Against HTS
For months, angry #demonstrations have rocked parts of northwestern #Syria controlled by Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), but the group’s strategy of crushing protests head on and preventing the protest movement from unifying appears to be putting the brakes on its momentum.
The protests broke out in late February after a campaign of arrests and torture of people suspected of infiltrating the Al-Qaeda-linked organization on behalf of various external powers from the #Assad regime and #Russia to the international coalition against the #Islamic State group. Demonstrators demanded the resignation of #HTS leader Abu Muhammed al-Jolani, the dismantling of its Public Security Apparatus ( Jihaz al-Aman al-‘Am ), and accountability for perpetrators of abuses
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Yet the expansion and evolution of the protest movement sparked fears on the part of HTS, which stepped up its efforts through a new, heavy-handed approach. On May 14, it dispersed the courthouse sit-in and deployed its forces in cities and on the junctions of major highways to pre-empt any protests in response. Three days later, HTS crushed protests in Jisr al-Shughur and the road between Idlib city and Binnish, as well as preventing them from holding any demonstrations in more central locations. Next, it launched a wave of arrests of protest organizers.
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The limited public reaction to the dispersal of the military court sit-in, the crushing of the Jisr al-Shughur and the highway #protests , and the muted response to the #protest movement’s calls on May 24 for civil disobedience in response to the detention of protesters by HTS, all encouraged the #jihadists to press onwards with their combined #policy of containment and confrontation.
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