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Five Kurds arrested in Syria
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March 18, 2008
Aleppo, Syrian Kurdistan,-- Syrian
authorities have arrested five Kurds, including
writer Ahmad Mustapha Mohammed, human rights group
said on Monday.
"The security services in Aleppo (northern Syria)
arrested writer Ahmad Mustapha Mohammed,www.ekurd.net
alias Pierre Rustom, on
Saturday and confiscated his mobile, books and
personal papers," the groups said in a joint
statement.
The writer is a member of the banned Kurdish
Democratic Party.
Four other Syrian Kurds, all brothers, were arrested
at a Damascus dress shop.
"The arrest of Jomaa, Ahmad, Mohammed Amin and Abdul
Aziz Hamdo was probably because they were sewing
Kurdish traditional costumes," the Syrian rights
group said.
They condemned "the arbitrary arrests of Kurds who
were only exercising their freedom of expression as
guaranteed by the Syrian constitution" and demanded
their immediate release.
Copyright, respective author or news agency, AFP
** 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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