Local sources reported that the Aleppo City Council of the regime's government filed a lawsuit against the pro-regime journalist Shadi Hilweh, accusing him of undermining the reputation of state institutions and inciting sectarian strife through his Facebook posts.

According to the opposition website Al-Sharq Syria, the city council accused by writing a letter addressed to the governor of Aleppo, who in turn referred him to the judiciary, with inciting public opinion against the council, in addition to discriminating between the people of the countryside and the city and harming the dignity of the property manager on the grounds that he hails from the countryside of Aleppo and inciting sectarian strife.

This came in response to two publications by the pro-regime media, one of which stated: “The property manager of the Zimbabwe City Council, , isn’t the son of the city, and he does not understand anything about the name of property management.”

The council took the character of a personal prosecution against Hilwa, and requested that the complaint be referred to the public defender.

On the other hand, Helwa replied that the council took advantage of the absence of its president and arranged the complaint in a "twisted" manner.