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Syria locks up two human rights activists |
2005-06-06 |
Syrian authorities recently arrested two human rights activists, one of whom was allegedly detained for speaking at a memorial service for a slain Kurdish cleric, rights groups said. Riad Arrar was arrested Saturday in northeast Syria "for having given a short speech at a ceremony honoring the memory of Sheikh Maashuq Khaznawi," said the Syrian Centre for Legal Studies. Khaznawi, a popular Kurdish Islamic figure, was abducted and murdered last month by what the Syrian government later called a "criminal gang." Khaznawi's followers suspected the Syrian government was behind the kidnapping and said his body showed "signs of torture." A second man, Hassan Dib, was arrested in the north for "unknown reasons" said the Syrian Centre for Legal Studies and the Arab Organization for Human Rights (AOHR). |
Posted by:Fred |
#2 Amnesty can't even distinguish between Guantanimo and a Gulag or Nork "prison" camp so how can they even begin to recognize what is going on in Syria. Amnesty would have given Hitler, Stalin, Il Duce and Tojo a pass. The Amnesty skewed focus would have been on the US internment camps and the fact that marines in the Pacific theatre didn't go out of their way to screw around with japanese soldiers playing squirrel in the process of "surrendering." |
Posted by: Tkat 2005-06-06 11:59 |
#1 How come you don't see Amnesty busting Assad's balls about human righs in Syria? Is Assad a liberal or something? Seems to me like there would be more work to be done in a place like that. |
Posted by: bigjim-ky 2005-06-06 08:00 |