AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL Public Statement AI Index: MDE 24/034/2005 (Public) News Service No: 142 25 May 2005 Syria: End crackdown on human rights defenders Amnesty International calls for the immediate release of eight more human rights defenders who were arrested at their homes at dawn on 24 May. […]
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 […]
Sharp deterioration of press freedom in the world in 2001
More and more journalists arrested, press freedom on the decline in several countries En 2001: – 31 journalists killed – 489 arrested – 716 attacked or threatened – 378 press media censured – As of January 1st, 2002, 110 journalists imprisoned in the world As compared to 2000: – 32 journalists killed – 329 arrested […]
Amnesty International Report 2001
SHRC | World View | Amnesty International Report 2001 In its report is Syria, AI reports that the fate of hundreds of people who “disappeared” in the 1970s and 1980s remained unknown. At least two political detainees died in custody . Hundreds of political prisoners, including prisoners of conscience, were released during 2000, however, hundreds […]
SYRIA: Torture, despair and dehumanization in Tadmur Military Prison
The 24 pages report is issued as part of Amnesty International worldwide campaign against torture. The report includes testimonies from people of different nationalities who were detained in the prison because of their links with a number of different political groups. It finds that Tadmur Prison appears to have been designed to inflict the maximum […]
Human Rights Watch Report 2000 on Human Rights Developments in Syria
The following are highlights from HRW report 2000 in Syria: Authorities still viewed human rights activists as criminals and subjected them to harsh punishment. Five associates of the Committees for the Defense of Democratic Freedoms and Human Rights in Syria (known by the acronym CDF) were serving eight to ten year prison terms imposed by […]
Human Rights Watch report – 2001: Human Rights Developments – Syria
The report states that, “despite the presidential succession, Syrians continued to be denied civil and political rights. Freedom of expression, association, and assembly were strictly limited in law and practice; the local media and access to the Internet remained state-controlled; and the pervasive powers of the security forces under the country’s long-standing emergency law, in […]