Articles for Syria

Syria: Disappearance Ammar Al-Suttof since 1993

Mr Ammar Al-Suttof, a nurse and a Syrian national, was mostly likely arrested by Syrian security forces in Beirut in 1993 and has since disappeared.

On 9 June 2009 Alkarama presented a communication to the Working Group on Enforced and Involuntary Disappearances (WGEID) asking it to intercede with the Syrian authorities so that they finally update his family after 16 years without news of his whereabouts.

17 Jun 2009
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Syria: Enforced disappearance of eight members of the Kurdish community in Qamishli

Between late August and November 2008, Syrian security services arrested eight people in Qamishli, a town in the north-east of Syria. These people have since disappeared. Alkarama submitted a communication to the Working Group on Enforced and Involuntary Disappearances (WGEID), asking it to intervene with the Syrian authorities.

All of the following eight young men live in Qamishli and are Syrian nationals, with the exception of one: 

14 May 2009
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Syria: Arbitrary detentions and killings in Sednaya prison

Alkarama today submitted to the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention the cases of Messrs Mustapha Kamel Houriya aged 52, Ahmed Abdelkader Kerroum and Youcef Amar Dehnine, both aged 41 years.

The three men from Idlib in northern Syria were arrested on 14 July 2007 in Damascus, where they had gone after being summoned by the military, and are currently being detained without charge in Sednaya prison, which was witness on 5 July 2008 to serious events in which prisoners were killed by the security services.

22 Oct 2008
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