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SHRC 
With reference to the news that the translator Ali al-Barazi (45 years) was arrested on 28/7/2007, SHRC (Syrian Human Rights Committee) requests that his place of detention and news of his condition is revealed, and that he is immediately released.
It has been reported that Ali al-Barazi, who lives with his family in the neighbourhood of Jodayedat Artooz, in Damascus rural province, was summoned to al-Mantiqa interrogation centre which belongs to the Military Intelligence. He visited the centre on 28/7/2007 but did not return, and his family have not heard from him since.
Ali al-Barazi is a translator in the Syrian-European Documentation Centre, a private firm centred in Damascus which offers many services to both local and global clients.
SHRC, which has condemned all kinds of arbitrary arrests and which has called upon the Military Intelligence to stop interfering in civilian matters, views the continuous arrests and disappearances of citizens enforced by the Intelligence and Security authorities as proof that the Syrian regime is adamant on continuing on a despotic and repressive path. It also shows that the regime is closed to any attempts of reform that would lessen its grip on citizen life and or grant them their basic rights to freedom.
Therefore, SHRC once again requests that the fate and place of detention of the translator Ali al-Barazi to be revealed and that he is released immediately. In the case of him being accused of a crime, he should be released on bail and transferred to a normal court in which his right to self-defence and appointing his own lawyer is guaranteed.
Syrian Human Rights Committee
31/8/2007 |
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