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Internet-user Abdel Rahman Shaguri
released from Syrian prison
15.9.2005
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Reporters Without
Borders noted the release from jail of Internet-user
Abdel Rahman Shaguri on 31 August 2005 one week
after completing his sentence for “publishing lies”
but condemned his conviction as “utterly
unjustified”.
"This man spent more than two and a half years in
prison and was tortured just for sending news by
email,” the worldwide press freedom organisation
said.
"We also want to use this occasion to repeat our
call for the release of cyberdissident Massud Hamid,
imprisoned in Syria since July 2003", it added.
Intelligence officials arrested Shaguri on 23
February 2003, for emailing a newsletter taken from
the website thisissyria.net, which is banned in
Syria. The supreme state security court sentenced
him on 20 June 2004 to two and a half years in
prison. The charge against him specified that the
articles he sent had “harmed the image and security
of Syria”.
Shaguri served his entire sentence at the Saidnaya
military prison where he was reportedly tortured by
members of the military secret services.
Police arrested journalism student Massud Hamid, on
24 July 2003 and he remains imprisoned at Adra jail
near Damascus. He was picked up one month after the
publication of photos he took, on 25 June, during a
peaceful Kurdish demonstration in front of the
Unicef offices in Damascus. The photos were posted
on the Kurdish language site amude.com.
The state security court sentenced him on 10 October
2004 to three years in prison for membership of a
secret organisation and for attempting to “attach a
part of Syrian territory to another country”.
The young man, who has also reportedly been tortured
in prison on several occasions, is now in a very
poor state of health.
www.rsf.org
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