An informed source in France has relayed the news that Mr. Abdul Rahman Wazzan travelled to Syria in mid-December 2007 to spend Eid al-Adha in Aleppo and to visit his family to sort out some legal issues arisen after the death of his mother; however he was arrested upon arriving at Damascus International Airport. Since then nobody has known anything about him or his whereabouts.
Mr Abdul Rahman Wazzan, a civil engineer (50 years) from Aleppo, has been living in France for the last 20 years, a father of 11 children and a wife who live in a state extreme anxiety in the absence of their provider who originally suffers of hard living situation.
The Syrian Human Rights Committee, while closely and anxiously observing the wave of detention against returnees and visitors to Syria, requests that the Syrian authorities should immediately release Mr Abdul Rahman Wazzan and the other detainees.

Syrian Human Rights Committee
18/1/2008