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Call to Join Picketing in front of the Syrian Embassy in London

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The Syrian Human Rights Committee (SHRC) calls upon the Syrian citizens and all supporters of human rights to join the picketing in front of the Syrian Embassy in London on Thursday 26/06/2008 on the occasion of: The International Day of Solidarity with Detainees of Conscience and the Disappeared in the Syrian Prisons that also coincides […]

‎3. Law No. 49‎

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First: Rulings of the Supreme State Security Court The Syrian regime stepped up its crackdown on the Muslim ‎Brotherhood Movement. The Supreme State Security Court ‎continued sentencing to death all the detainees that had been ‎subjected to trial on the charge of being members thereof, ‎according to Law No. 49 of 1980 the first article […]

The Tadmur (Palmyra) Prison Massacre on its 27th Anniversary

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The Tadmur (Palmyra) Prison Massacre on its 27th Anniversary…Still Awaiting for Justice   On 27th June 1980, the Syrian Regime’s death machine slaughtered approximately 1000 Islamic detainees as they sat defenceless within their cells in the desert prison of Tadmur. The machine used to carry out this operation was the Defence Brigades, headed and commanded […]

Release of Engineer Abdul Sattar Qattan

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The Syrian Human Rights Committee (SHRC) has learnt from a close source that the Syrian Authorities released the engineer Abdul Sattar Qattan on Tuesday 12/6/2007. SHRC has not received any news about the latest update of his health, although he was witnessed to be suffering from deteriorating and ill health and almost in a disabled […]

Part One: December 1980

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The Arrest:  Just Five Minutes On one of the coldest nights in Damascus, Wednesday, December 31, 1980, I kept awake while my roommates drifted to sleep. I spent half the night struggling to stay awake, struggling to understand the sentences in my Sharia textbook, and struggling to absorb information for my final exam in the […]

Part Two: January 1981 – October 1982

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Kafar Suseh Prison: A Journey beyond Time   The three cars transporting us from the Mukhabarat branch to Kafar Suseh Prison passed through the entrance gates and sped to the main building. The building had three floors. The driver went around the building through a maze of alleyways and stopped in front of one entrance. […]

Part Three: October 1982 – November 1985

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Katana Prison: A Slow Death The car sped out of the prison grounds and onto the road, thrusting us from side to side at every turn. Our tired bodies crashed into each other and would have plunged out of the car if it weren’t for the metal bars that contained us. Two heavily armed guards […]

Part Six: December 1989

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Release Four more years passed, four more years slashed from our lives, four more meaningless, purposeless years. Winter arrived once again in Dooma Prison, but the seasons, like the years, slipped away with little regard. During these stagnant times, a series of events began to unravel and cut through the silence. One cold October day […]