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Syria's minorities faces ongoing rights abuses despite media cover-ups, warns SOHR director. Highlights kidnappings of Alawite women, 'Turkey's two-faced' Afrin policy, and suppression of dissent.

During Syria's war, Afrin — a majority-Kurdish area in the north — suffered kidnappings by ISIS, airstrikes, sexual violence and torture.