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SHRC 
The exceptional State Supreme Security Court (SSSC) has issued on Sunday (26/08/07) new harsh sentences against four Islamists, two of them accused of belonging to the Muslim Brotherhood Movement. Following a series of sentences passed throughout the last two years against citizens accused of belonging to the Muslim Brotherhood, the SSSC sentenced Yusuf Najiah (72 years) and Muwafaq Qarmah (44 years) to death, in accordance with law 49/1980. The sentences were then reduced to 12 years in prison with hard labour,fine and confinement.
In the same hearing, the SSSC also sentenced Mustafa Noor-al-Deen (Aleppo- 25 years) and Ahmed Mansour al-Hilaly (al-Qamishli- 21 years) to six years in prison, accusing them of belonging to a secret organisation that aimed to change the economic and social structure of the state.
The Syrian Human Rights Committee (SHRC), (which has proved the invalidity of law 49/1980 that sends citizens to their death merely for ideological affiliation and called for its repeal), strongly condemns the harsh verdicts issued by the SSSC. Such verdicts contradict the spirit and text of the Syrian constitution and international humanitarian conventions, and SHRC strongly condemns them being applied to an elderly and ill man in his seventies, calling for their repeal, the repeal of law 49/1980, and the release of citizens Yusuf Najiah and Muwafaq Qarmiah immediately.
SHRC also calls for the release of the citizens Mustafa Noor-al-deen and Ahmed Mansour al-Hilaly and for an end to the criminalisation of citizens due to their Islamic tendencies.
Syrian Human Rights Committee
28/8/2007 |
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