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| Syria Continues to Arrest Kurds; More Than a Thousand in Jail |
| 2004-04-13 |
| Syrian authorities have arrested more than 1000 Kurds as part of a continuing campaign against the Kurdish minority, a Syrian human rights group claimed today. .... In a statement faxed to foreign news agencies in Damascus today, Aktham Naisse, the chairman of the Committees for the Defence of Democratic Liberties and Human Rights in Syria, said "arbitrary daily arrests" were still continuing against Kurdish women and men. More than 1000 Kurds have been arrested and many of them were tortured, he said. .... The statement claimed that a number of Kurds were dismissed from Syrian universities for participating in last month’s demonstrations. .... Faisal al-Youssef, a member of the political bureau of the Kurdish Democratic Party, said that daily arrests of Kurds have been conducted since last month. .... On April 7, the Kurdish Yekiti Party claimed that Syrians authorities conducted raids in north-eastern Syria and arrested dozens of Kurds. .... |
| Posted by:Mike Sylwester |