Closely related sources reported to the Syrian Human Rights Committee (SHRC) that the Palestinian engineer Fuad Hussein (70 years) was arrested from the Syrian-Jordanian borders on Thursday 9/10/2008 whilst heading to Damascus with his wife to visit her relatives.

The engineer Fuad Hussein is a British national who left Britain three years ago to live in Jordan. He suffers from many chronic diseases such as blood pressure, diabetes and so on.

SHRC considers the detainment of the engineer Fuad Hussein as an act of human piracy and an attack on the dignity of the elderly and a violation of the freedom of the human. SHRC calls for his immediate release, and stresses to all humanitarian organisations to take note of Mr. Hussein’s diseases and the negative impact this may have on his health, particularly in the terrible conditions of the Syrian prisons. Furthermore, since he is not a Syrian citizen, it would have been more proper for the Syrian Authorities to disallow him from entering the country if he was not welcome.

SHRC expresses its concerns of the engineer Fuad Hussein being exposed to torture and ill treatment in his current weak state, and calls upon the humanitarian community to immediately get involved in working for his release and to put an end to his sufferings.

Syrian Human Rights Committee
13/10/2008