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Syria arrests Kurdish activist and German
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January
17, 2008
Al-Hasaka, Syrian Kurdistan,-- Syrian
authorities arrested a Kurdish political activist
and a German national of Kurdish origin in two
separate incidents without arrest warrants, a Syrian
National Organization for Human Rights (NOHR) said
Thursday.
Syrian security police raided on Monday the home of
Joan Shamsud Din in Hassakeh,www.ekurd.net
750 kilometres
north-east of Damascus, arrested him and seized his
computer and other belongings without an arrest
warrant, the NOHR said in a statement.
Shamsud is a former political prisoner, who was
jailed for alleged links with a Kurdish group.
In a separate incident, a German national of Kurdish
origin, Izzidin Muhammad Hussein, was arrested on
Saturday upon his arrival at Damascus airport from
Germany where he has been living for the last nine
years, the statement said.
The organization criticized the arrests as
'constitutionally illegal' since they took place
without a legal warrant.
Detentions without reason and arrest warrant are
allowed under emergency law, which has been in force
since the ruling Baath Party took over power in
1963.
DPA
** Kurds are the largest ethnic minority in Syria
making up 10% of the country's population i.e. about
two million.
Kurds in Syria often speak Kurdish in public,
unless all those present do not. Kurdish human
rights activists are mistreated and persecuted. No
political parties are allowed for any group, Kurdish
or otherwise.
Suppression of ethnic identity of
Kurds in Syria include: various bans on the use of
the Kurdish language; refusal to register children
with Kurdish names; replacement of Kurdish place
names with new names in Arabic; prohibition of
businesses that do not have Arabic names; not
permitting Kurdish private schools; and the
prohibition of books and other materials written in
Kurdish.
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