Ahmad Ajjan was living in the village of Yalda, which, at the time, was under the control of the Free Syrian Army and besieged by the Syrian Army. On October 20, 2013, the Syrian Army agreed to allow the evacuation of all the civilians not directly participating in hostilities.

On October 20, 2013, while they were trying to evacuate Yalda, Ahmad Ajjan and other members of his family were stopped at a checkpoint controlled by the Syrian Army located in Tal Al Kharouf district near Al Husseiniyah village. Members of the Syrian Army, wearing military uniforms, arrested Ahmad Ajjan and the other members of the family and took them to an unknown location.

Since his arrest, Ahmad Ajjan’s family has gone every year – the last time in May 2019 – to enquire about his fate and whereabouts to the military police station in Qaboun, Damascus Governorate, as well as to the Criminal Court in Damascus, but to no avail.