PUBLIC AI Index: MDE 24/032/2005 25 May 2005 UA 139/05 Prisoners of conscience/incommunicado detention/fear of torture SYRIA ‘Ali al-‘Abdullah (m), journalist and member of Jamal al-Atassi Forum Dr Suhayr Jamal al-Atassi (f), Chair of Board of Directors of Jamal al-Atassi Forum Hussein […]
Human Rights Watch 2005 Report on syria
http://hrw.org/english/docs/2005/01/13/syria9812.htm
The case of Arwad Izzat Al-Bouchi
PUBLIC AI Index: MDE 24/072/2004 20 October 2004 Further Information on UA 362/03 (MDE 24/047/2003, 10 December 2003) Fear of torture and ill-treatment/unlawful detention/incommunicado detention and new concern: Possible prisoner of conscience SYRIA/CANADA Arwad Muhammad ‘Izzat Al-Boushi (m), aged 45, engineer Amnesty International has recently learned that Syrian-born Canadian national Arwad Muhammad ‘Izzat Al-Boushi […]
Amnesty International: Syria: Punished for using the internet
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL Public Statement AI Index: MDE 24/017/2004 (Public) News Service No: 057 12 March 2004 Embargo Date: 12 March 2004 00:01 GMT Syria: Punished for using the internet – Amnesty International calls for an end to the suppression of the right to freedom of expression Amnesty […]
Amnesty International: Syria: 41 years of the State of Emergency
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL Public Statement AI Index: MDE 24/016/2004 (Public) News Service No: 053 8 March 2004 Embargo Date: 8 March 2004 00:01 GMT Syria: 41 years of the State of Emergency – Amnesty International reiterates its concerns over a catalogue of human rights violations Amnesty International today […]
Human Rights Watch World Report 2002 – Syria
Human Rights Developments Defending Human Rights HUMAN RIGHTS DEVELOPMENTS President Bashar al-Asad’s government launched a crackdown on peaceful but outspoken advocates of reform in August, sending a clear message that it would tolerate a political opening only on its own terms and according to its own timetable. Authorities arrested leading critics and others […]
Amnesty International Annual Report 2002 on Syria
Syrian Arab Republic Head of state: Bashar al-Assad Head of government: Muhammad Mustafa Miro Capital: Damascus Population: 16.6 million Official language: Arabic Death penalty: retentionist Scores of political prisoners, including prisoners of conscience, were released during 2001, most as a result of a presidential amnesty. Dozens of people, including prisoners of conscience, were arrested during […]
Amnesty International Report 2000 on Syria
Amnesty International has published its yearly report on the human rights around the globe. Its report on Syria started by mentioning the general amnesty issued by President Hafez al-Assad in July 1999 which had resulted in the release of an unspecified number of political prisoners, but noticed that the main beneficiaries were prisoners charged with […]
Amnesty International: Syria – Smothering freedom of expression: the detention of peaceful critics
INTRODUCTION One of the major concerns of Amnesty International featured in this report is the apparent surge of politically motivated arbitrary arrests in Syria towards the end of 2000, which have included members of parliament, prominent opposition figures, and other activists in civil society groups and the human rights movement. This report raises the cases […]
Human Rights Watch Report 1999 on Human Rights Developments in Syria
“I do not go into the prisons, but I believe that there are not many prisoners any more,” President Hafez al-Asad said in an interview with the French television station TF-1 in Damascus on July 11, the week before his official state visit to France. Indeed, there were welcome releases during the year of 121 […]