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Syria: Free Peaceful Activists, Journalists, Aid Workers in Amnesty
SYR - News | 25 October 2012
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President Bashar al-Assad should release all peaceful activists, media professionals, and humanitarian assistance providers as part of an amnesty announced on October 23, 2012, Human Rights Watch, Alkarama, the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Network, the Gulf Centre for Human Rights, Index on Censorship, the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), Reporters Without Borders, and Samir Kassir Foundation – Skeyes Center for Media and Cultural Freedom said today. These persons have been detained purely for exercising their basic rights such as freedom of assembly and freedom of expression, or for assisting others and therefore should not have been detained or prosecuted in the first place, the groups said.
Syria: Student Rama Al Assas disappeared since last 27 August
SYR - News | 17 October 2012
26-year-old Syrian student Rama Al Assas was abducted on 27 August 2012 from her home in Damascus. Since then, her whereabouts remain unknown as the Syrian authorities refuse to give any information on her fate. Alkarama is concerned about her physical and mental integrity as torture and ill-treatment is highly likely as long as she remains disappeared.
Syria: Torture and risk of extrajudicial killing of Ms Fatima Saad
SYR - News | 27 July 2012
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While media outlets show the cities of Syria in the throes of civil war, the practice of arbitrary arrests and subsequent disappearances of civilians by the Syrian security services and government affiliated militia persists.
Syria: Death under torture of Syrian social media activist Aladdin Al Doori
SYR - News | 06 June 2012
Aladdin Al Doori, a Syrian social media activist, was shot and arrested by soldiers at a military barrier close to Bab Al Taqa near Qalaat Al Madiq on 14 April 2012. His family was not provided with any information about his state of health or his whereabouts for the two days following his arrest. They later learnt that he had died under torture and had to undertake large efforts to receive his body, which they were refused at first.
Syria: Committee against Torture speaks of "widespread and systematic practices of torture"
SYR - News | 05 June 2012
On 1 June 2012, the Committee against Torture published the concluding observations of its special review of Syria held two weeks before, on 16 May 2012. Most notably, the Committee "requests that the Syrian Arab Republic submit a special follow-up report to the Committee" on the measures taken to implement the recommendations resulting from the special review by 31 August 2012. Alkarama contributed to the special review by submitting an alternative report on the widespread and systematic torture in Syria to the Committee and by participating in the NGO briefing on the day before the review took place.