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SHRC 
The Syrian Human Rights Committee (SHRC) has expressed its grave concern at the level to which the Syrian Judiciary has been manipulated and overpowered by the security intelligence and the direction in which they are heading it. And SHRC strongly condemns the grossly unfair sentence issued by the Criminal Court in Damascus on 10/2/2010 against the Islamic scholar Abdulrahman Kuki, which sentenced him to a year in prison.
SHRC considers the accusations made against Abdulrahman Kuki as inaccurate, and stemming from the security intelligence apparatus, with no link whatsoever to fair and independent courts. SHRC also considers Kuki a prisoner of conscience, and calls for his immediate release, as well as calling upon the Syrian people and human rights groups to stand by him and provide their support.
The Islamic scholar, Abdulrahman Kuki, was arrested on 22/10/2009, two days following his participation in the programme “The Opposite Direction”, which is aired on the Aljazeera TV Channel in Qatar. The programme’s discussion was surrounding the issue of the Niqab (full face veil) and the decision made by the Al-Azhar sheikh in forbidding it. When at one point, the second participant in the programme veered off the point of discussion and attacked the Syrian regime, making remarks about the wife of the President in an unreasonable manner, Kuki kept to the point of discussion. Subsequently, the security intelligence accused him of igniting sectarian and ethnic division, and abuse towards the President.
SHRC considers it the duty of Aljazeera Channel to defend the Islamic scholar Abdulrahman Kuki, combine all its efforts to work for his release, and to criticise the presenter of the programme for inviting those who are not expert of subjects being discussed.
Syrian Human Rights Committee
10/2/2010
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