Nora Al Ameer, vice president of the Syrian Coalition, demands that the Assad regime seek the immediate release of around 100 kidnapped Alawites, mostly children and women. "We condemn all acts of kidnapping, no matter who is kidnapping, and no matter what the motives are behind them. We demand the release of all abductees. The anti-regime fighters' kidnapping of a group of Syrians belonging to the sect to which Assad belongs is a something we do not accept. We hold the Assad regime responsible for the kidnapping of these people, as it has pursued a policy of kidnapping since the early days of the revolution on the pretext of preserving national security which Assad claims was threatened by the popular uprising." However, Al Ameer rules out that Assad agrees to swap the kidnapped Alawites and answer the appeals of the abductees.

"The Assad regime has always declined to swap Syrians for Syrians, as the Alawite sect for him is nothing more than a card through which he seeks to implement his political agenda. If these abductees were Iranians or militiamen from Hezbollah and Abu al Fadl al Abbas, Assad would not hesitate to seek their release as they are for him the mercenaries that he cannot give up." Al Ameer concluded her remarks saying that "the deal through which the nuns were released was brokered after international pressure, a sign that the Assad regime does not represent the Syrian people, but it is merely a gangster regime and a puppet used by Iranian and Russian forces in the region. In a similar vein, Hisham Marwa, member of the legal committee, demands special protection for the released nuns and holds the Assad regime responsible for their safety after the systematic provocation by the regime-owned media against the nuns who declined to make statements synonymous with the regime's narrative. "The regime's swapping of the detained children and women inside its prisons for the nuns lays bare its claims about protecting of minorities on the one hand, and exposes its political maneuvers on the other, as it repeatedly denied during Geneva II talks it detain Syrian women," Marwa stresses.

Marwa also said that "this prisoner exchange indicates that the Assad regime is indifferent to the protection of minorities or the majority alike. The regime's only concern is using all components of Syrian society as political cards to cling to power." The nun's affirmation that they were treated well stands in stark contrast to compelling evidence of Assad's brutality, especially the thousands of leaked photos of torture victims in Assad's prison. "All this confirms to the international community that the most dangerous and terrorist threat to the security of the region is the Assad regime." Marwa concluded his remarks stressing that the Syrian Coalition "does not accept kidnapping of civilians from any side, a tactic that the Assad regime has been using since the early days of the revolution." (Source: Syrian Coalition)