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A source close to the detainees mentioned below has reported that they were arrested 10 weeks ago in the first half of the month of August 2008. No explanation was provided for their arrest except that they are religious men of a moderate outlook. The source also reported that they cannot even be described as individuals who oppose the current regime. The men were arrested from their homes and work places, and they include:
• Muhammad Ameen al-Shawa ( Secondary School Maths Teacher, Deir Al-Zour)
• Burhan Juneid (Shop owner)
• Nabeel Khleewi (Employee in Petrol establishment, 49 years, arrested 13/8/2008)
• Abdul Hadi al-Salameh (Arabic Literature University Student)
• Bilal Sufyan
• Sufyan Dumaim
• Ahmed Dumaim (brother of Sufyan)
• Iyad Hussein
• Hassan Muhammad
• Muhammad Taha
• Thabit al-Hassan
• Abdul Razzaq al-Kubaisi
Different sources have related that they were taken to the ill-reputed Palestine Branch for Military Interrogation which is connected with the military intelligence, however nothing is known of their fates or the places in which they are currently being held, or of the reasons for their arrests and the accusations charged against them.
The source also related that the families of the detainees are extremely concerned and worried about their loved ones who disappeared upon their arrests by the intelligence, and are desperate to know where they are being held in order to visit them.
The Syrian Human Rights Committee (SHRC) calls upon the Syrian Authorities to reveal the places in which the above-mentioned citizens are being held and to immediately release them. If the citizens have committed any crimes then they should be trialled in a civil court in which they enjoy their full freedoms with the right to defend themselves.
SHRC also calls upon the Syrian Authorities to put an end to all arbitrary and oppressive arrests, the sudden disappearances of citizens and their torture as well as to stop forbidding them of their rights which have been guaranteed to them by the Syrian constitution.
Syrian Human Rights Committee
28/10/2008 |
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