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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Syria jails 10 for belonging to Islamist groups
2006-05-14
DAMASCUS - Ten people have been sentenced in Syria to jail terms ranging from three to nine years for membership in banned Islamist organisations, the head of a rights organisation said on Saturday.

Ammar Al Qurabi, of the Arab Organisation for Human Rights in Syria, condemned the sentences by the high state security court as ”very harsh” and demanded that the 10 be released.
There you go, just demand stuff in Syria. Should work well.
He did not name those condemned, or say what groups they had been convicted of belonging to. He said they had been arrested early last year in several different parts of the country. Qurabi also called for dismantlement of the court, which he called unconstitutional, as a step toward lifting the 40-year-old state of emergency in place in the country and an end to all special courts.
Posted by:Steve White

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