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Urgent Call for the Release of Hussein Ismail Dgheim

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The Syrian Human Rights Committee (SHRC) has received complaints from the Maltese National Josephine al-Dgheim, who lives in Valetta in Malta. She says that her husband, Ismail al-Dgheim left his home in Malta on Friday 29/12/2006 to celebrate Eid al-Adha with his family in Idlib, Syria. He phoned her when he was in Cyprus, informing […]

Commentary: Gazi Kanan denies the presence of political prisoners in Syrian Prisons

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On the 17/07/2005, the Syrian interior minister, Gazi Kanan made a statement in which he claimed, “There are absolutely no political prisoners in Syria, that even the record of the Muslim Brotherhood and Lebanese prisoners have been dealt and finished with.”  The spokesman of SHRC dismissed this statement, describing it as inaccurate and false. The […]

SHRC Annual Report Summary about Human Rights in Syria

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The deterioration in human rights conditions in Syria during this last year is the worst yet since 2000 Syrian Human Rights Committee found that human rights conditions in Syria suffered “fundamental setbacks,” considered the worst since Bashar Assad assumed the presidency five years ago, according to the fifth annual report issued by SHRC covering the […]

Fifteenth: Prisons and Torture

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15.1 – Prisons and Detainment Centres   Every prison, detainment or interrogation centre in Syria holds a reputation that distinguishes it from the rest. The infamous reputation of the Palestine Branch for Military Interrogation does not fall short of the notorious Desert Prison of Palmyra (Tadmur), whose political section was closed in the Fall of […]

General Hasan Khalil, head of Military intelligence is made redundant

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A media spokesperson expressed on behalf of the Syrian Human Rights Committee today (18 February 2005) his relief at the mere news of General Hasan Khalil’s retirement. Khalil, 60, who served as Syria’s chief of military intelligence, carries a tainted record of the bloodshed of thousands of innocent Syrians, in addition to causing the pain […]

C.The dossier of those vanished in the Syrian prisons:

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After closing the Political Division in the Desert prison of Tadmur (Palmyra), the map of the detainees who disappeared in the Syrian prisons began to become considerably clearer. The majority of them are considered to belong to the Muslim Brotherhood.     The Syrian Human Rights Committee has for several years devoted itself to collecting […]