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Arab Detainees

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Syrian Authorities persisted in detaining and hiding hundreds of Arabs from neighbouring countries such as Iraq, Jordan, Palestine, Saudi Arabia and Lebanon. The issue of Arab detainees in Syria still has not been addressed as authorities rarely acknowledge their presence in Syrian prisons. Lebanon, for example, has repeatedly called upon the Syrian government to disclose […]

Islamist Detainees

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Despite its wide – ranging impact, the issue of Islamist detainees has received little attention by human rights activists. Syrian authorities have given themselves free rein to arrest, torture, and issue summary judgements against Islamist activists, taking full advantage of the so – called international war on terror. Security agreements with major international powers have […]

Civil Society and Human Rights Activists

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Syrian Authorities intensified their campaign against civil society and human rights activists in 2008. Scores were arrested or rearrested in a move aimed at crushing civil and human rights which had blossomed in the past few years. Habib Saleh, an opposition activist, was arrested for the third time on the 7th of May 2008 in […]

Sednaya Prison Massacre

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The Syrian Human Rights Committee has learned from a source inside Sednaya Prison that members of the military police changed the locks on all the prison cells on the night of the 4th of July 2008. The following morning, an additional back – up force arrived at the prison. A search of the prison quarters […]

Torture in Syrian Prisons in 2008

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Paragraph 3 of the Article 28 of the constitution declares that “No one may be tortured physically or mentally or be treated in a humiliating manner. The law defines the punishment of whoever commits such an act.” Article 5 of the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights which Syria ratified declares that “No one shall […]

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1.Introduction 2.Sednaya Prison Massacre 3.The Damascus Declaration for National Democratic Change (DDNDC) detainees 4.Civil Society and Human Rights Activists 5.Law 49/198 5.1 List of the names of Syrians detained or arrested in accordance to the law in 2008 5.2 Syrians in Forced Exile 5.3 Missing Detainees 6.Islamist Detainees 7.Random Arrests 8.Kurdish Detainees 9.Arab Detainees 10.Death […]

Ex-detainee Abdul Sattar Qattan passed away

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The Syrian Human Rights Committee (SHRC) has learnt from an informed source in Aleppo this morning of the death of the ex-detainee Abdul Sattar Qattan (68 years) whilst washing his kidneys in hospital. Abdul Sattar Qattan had spent three terms of prison over more than 20 years due to his opinions and creed, and was […]

Return of Lengthy Detentions of Women

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The Syrian Authorities have returned to their old practices pursued in the last third of the previous century in arresting and detaining women for lengthy periods because of their kinship, or being married to detainees due to their Islamic background. It is well known that some ladies who were detained in the 1980’s remained in custody […]

Syria: Wives of Islamist Suspects Detained, Whereabouts Unknown

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(New York, August 18, 2008) – The Syrian government should immediately release three women detained by state authorities since July 31, 2008, unless they have evidence that these women have committed criminal offenses and intend to try them for these, Human Rights Watch said today.   The women live in al-`Otayba, a village approximately 20 […]

Elderly Women Protest in Homs

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The Syrian Human Rights Committee (SHRC) has learnt from eye-witnesses that approximately 50 elderly women, all mothers of detainees in Sednaya Military Prison, grouped together on Tuesday (8/7/2008) noon in one of the public squares in central Homs, asking for the fates of their detainee sons to be revealed. Within minutes of their arrival, disguised […]