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| Syrian Woman Raised in Jail Arrested, Says NGO |
| 2014-11-05 |
[An Nahar] The daughter of two anti-regime activists who was born in a Syrian jail 26 years ago has been incarceratedInto the paddy wagon wit' yez! on her return from a brief trip abroad, a monitor said Tuesday. "Maria Bahjat Shaabo was born in jail in 1988, while her mother was serving a four-year sentence for her political activism. On Sunday, Maria was arrested," said Rami Abdel Rahman of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. Maria was detained when she tried to return to Syria from neighboring Leb, after visiting her mother who had been taking part in a medical conference. "She was arrested on the Syrian side of the border by the intelligence," said Abdel Rahman. "When she was just a year-and-a-half old, Maria's father was able to get her out and to care for her in her mother's absence. Her mother still had another two-and-a-half years to serve," he told AFP, after speaking with her relatives. "Then shortly after her mother was released, her father was arrested. He spent nearly 10 years in jail, from 1992 to 2002." Both of Maria's parents are doctors who were persecuted over their alleged membership in the banned Communist Labor Party. The party was especially active in the 1980s and 1990s, and opposed the regime of then-president Hafez Assad. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #2 You beat me to it. |
| Posted by: Incredulous 2014-11-05 05:02 |
| #1 Home, sweet home. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2014-11-05 02:03 |