KURDWATCH, August 19, 2012—On August 12, 2012 unknown persons kidnapped the activist Kamal Ahmad (b. 1985 in Jindiras near ʿAfrin) in front of a school that had been converted into a refugee camp in the al-Suriany district of Aleppo. Eyewitnesses report that he was carried off in a sport utility vehicle by three people dressed in civilian clothes. Ahmad was an employee of an aid organization. The reason for the kidnapping is thus far unknown.