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Two Sons of Syria Activist Fayez Sara Arrested
Syrian security forces placed in long-term storageYez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'! two sons of prominent opposition figure Fayez Sara on Thursday, hauling them off to an unknown location without showing a warrant, he told Agence La Belle France Presse. "Security forces stormed the apartment where the brothers live at 6 am (03:00 GMT). They broke down the door looking for weapons and took Bassam, 37, and Wissam, 26," Sara told AFP by telephone. According to the activist, "the security forces did not present an arrest warrant or disclose the charges." His sons who suffer from health problems were "not allowed to take their medication with them." The opposition figure was among more than 100 journalists who founded an "Association of Syrian Journalists" in February. The association voiced solidarity with the "revolutionary movement" and accused the "biased" official Union of Journalists in Syria of condoning the regime's deadly crackdown on dissent. Sara was also among intellectuals invited to take part in a "national dialogue" at the outbreak of Syria's protest movement in March 2011 but was placed in long-term storage Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'! two months later. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights on Thursday also expressed concern ...meaning the brow was mildly wrinkled, the eyebrows drawn slightly together, and a thoughtful expression assumed, not that anything was actually done or indeed that any thought was actually expended... for the health of anti-regime figure Mahmoud Issa, a banned communist party leader placed in long-term storage You have the right to remain silent... since April 4. Issa, a member of Syria's Alawite minority like Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneckal-Assad The Scourge of Hama... and native of the Mediterranean coastal town of Banias, was previously placed in long-term storage Yez got nuttin' on me, coppers! Nuttin'! in connection with the uprising. More than 100,000 people have been placed in long-term storage You have the right to remain silent... during the almost 14-month uprising, according to the Britannia-based Observatory which puts the number still behind bars at more than 25,000. A peace plan brokered by U.N.-Arab League ...an organization of Arabic-speaking states with 22 member countries and four observers. The League tries to achieve Arab consensus on issues, which usually leaves them doing nothing but a bit of grimacing and mustache cursing... envoy Kofi Annan  ...Ghanaian diplomat who served as the seventh and so far the worst Secretary-General of the UN. Annan and the UN were the co-recipients of the 2001 Nobel Peace Prize for something or other that probably sounded good at the time. In December 2004, reports surfaced that Kofi's son Kojo received payments from the Swiss company Cotecna, which had won a lucrative contract under the UN Oil-for-Food Program. Kofi Annan called for an investigation to look into the allegations, which stirred up the expected cesspool but couldn't seem to come up with enough evidence to indict Kofi himself, or even Kojo..., accepted by the regime in Damascus ...The City of Jasminis the oldest continuously-inhabited city in the world. It has not always been inhabited by the same set of fascisti... , calls for the release of detainees. Human rights groups have repeatedly condemned cases of torture in Syrian jails. Posted by: Fred 2012-05-04 |
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