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Syria: Son of murdered Kurd scholar
arrested
15.11.2006
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LONDON, November
14, -- Syrian authorities released a son of murdered
Syrian Kurdish cleric Mohammed Maashuk Khaznawi
Tuesday after detaining him for 24 hours, an
opposition group said.
The Syrian Observatory for the Defence of Human
Rights said intelligence services picked up Sheikh
Murad Khaznawi on Monday near the Jordanian border
as he was preparing to leave the country.
The group called on the Syrian authorities to "ban
arbitrary arrests and halt intelligence service
interference in the judicial system so that national
unity can be preserved."
A brother, Murshed Khaznawi told the London-based
group that he feared for his life and accused
"influential figures in the Syrian regime" of having
assassinated their father in 2005.
The Kurdish Muslim clergy had "received threats from
the security services after an April 2005 speech in
which he blamed them for the murders of dozens of
Syrian Kurds in March 2004", the brother said.
Five days of clashes in March 2004 pitting Kurds
against security forces and Arab tribal elements in
Syrian Kurdistan in the city of Qamishli and
Aleppo resulted in 40 deaths, according to Kurdish
sources. The authorities said 25 people were killed.
Kurds make up around nine percent of Syria's
population and charge they are the victims of
discrimination in the Arab state.
AFP
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