The trial of the deported Syrian Kurd Khalid Kanjo from Germany adjourned in Syria

The trial of the deported Syrian Kurd from Germany adjourned in Syria

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The trial of the deported Syrian Kurd from Germany adjourned in Syria 30.12.2009

December 30, 2009 QAMISHLI, Syrian Kurdistan,— The trial of Khaled Kanjo who was deported from Germany to Syria, was held today – Tuesday 29 December 2009 – before the Military Individual Judge Court, in the Kurdish town of Qamishli in Syrian Kurdistan (Western Kurdistan). Khaled Kanjo has been charged with ‘broadcasting false news that would bring the Syrian State into disrepute’,www.ekurd.netin case number 3813/2009. The hearing was dedicated to presenting Khaled Kanjo’s defence. He was represented by the following lawyers: • Mohamed Khalil, a member of the Trustees Board of DAD – organisation,	Khalid Kanjo, the deported Syrian Kurd
• Mohammed Ashraf al-Seno member of the Trustees Board of DAD – organisation, • Luqman Ebana, • Redwan Seydou, • Sulaiman Ismail, • Ibrahim Ahmad. The trial was adjourned until 8 February 2010, for sentencing. More than 2 million Kurds live in Syria, comprising nine percent of the population. They have long sought official recognition of the Kurdish language and culture. The Kurds live in Syria (Syrian Kurdistan), mainly in the north bordering Turkey and Iraqi Kurdistan region. They comprise nine percent of the population and have long sought official recognition of the Kurdish language and their culture. Future Movement advocates democracy and equal rights for Syria's one million Kurdish minority. The Kurdish language is not allowed to be taught in schools and tens of thousands of Kurds were denied citizenship after a 1960s census. Freedom of expression remains tightly controlled in Syria, and security forces have sweeping powers of arrest and detention. A total 1,500 people were arrested for political reasons in 2007 and hundreds more who were arrested in previous years remained in detention,www.ekurd.netaccording to rights group Amnesty International's 2008 report. Related Khalid Kanjo Links The deported Syrian Kurd from Germany is released from prison in Syria 4.1.2010 The trial of the deported Syrian Kurd from Germany adjourned in Syria 30.12.2009 Germany Returns Syrian Kurds to Uncertain Fate 28.11.2009 Deported Syrian Kurd arrested and disappeared -- Schäuble bears some of the responsibility! 10.10.2009 Related Links Syrian Kurdish Yekiti Party member released from prison 30.12.2009 The trial of the deported Syrian Kurd from Germany adjourned in Syria 30.12.2009 Syrian Kurdish hunger strikers were tortured: Kurdish Democratic Union Party PYD 30.12.2009 Syria arrests four Kurds: rights group 28.12.2009 Kurdish child of 15 and man arrested, detained and disappeared in Syria 25.12.2009 Amnesty: Kurdish lawyer detained, risk torture, urgent action required 23.12.2009 Trial of three political Kurdish women and one man delayed, in Syria 21.12.2009 Syria: The trial of Kurdish Youths adjourned to 29 December 19.12.2009 Kurdish student arrested without a warrant in Syria, computer confiscated 18.12.2009 Syria arrests a prominent Kurdish lawyer 16.12.2009 Trial of Kurds in Syria likely to be a 'parody of justice': Amnesty International 16.12.2009 A Kurdish man Noori Ibrahim Sheilko arrested in Syria 14.12.2009 Kurdish conscript Khalil Bozan Sheikh Muslim is one of the new victims of killings in mysterious circumstances in the Syrian army 12.12.2009 Syrian Kurdish political prisoners end their hunger strike 9.12.2009 Three more Kurds are arrested in Syria 6.12.2009 New report about the arrest of the Syrian Kurdish writer Ahmed Mustafa (also known as Pier Rustum) 5.12.2009 Syrian Kurdish writer Pier Rustum disappeared in Lebanon, found in a security detention centre in Damascus 3.12.2009 Defend International supports Syrian Kurds 29.11.2009 Two Kurdish men in their 70s and a 10 year old child arrested in Syria for celebrating Eid al-Adha 29.11.2009 Syria: End Persecution of Kurds 29.11.2009 Germany Returns Syrian Kurds to Uncertain Fate 28.11.2009 Syrian activist held incommunicado at risk of torture 27.11.2009 Syria out of step with 'repression' of Kurds: HRW 26.11.2009 Kurds come together to support the continuing hunger strike by prisoners in Syria 23.11.2009 Syrian Kurdish family arrested following their return from Iraq's Kurdistan region 23.11.2009 Letter to UN Secretary General regarding Kurds in Syria 22.11.2009 Syria jails three Kurds for joining banned Azadi Kurdish party 16.11.2009 More Kurdish students arrested in the Kurdish region of Syria Oct/Nov 2009 - 15.11.2009 Four Kurdish activists from the Democratic Union Party are each sentenced to six years in prison, in Syria 10.11.2009 Syrian Kurdish student arrested and excluded from University for internet activity 9.11.2009 More disappearances of Kurds in Syria 9.11.2009 Hunger strike amongst Kurdish political prisoners in Syria 8.11.2009 Deported Syrian Kurd arrested and disappeared -- Schäuble bears some of the responsibility! 10.10.2009 Submitted by By Khalaf Dahowd Copyright, respective author or news agency, The Kurdish Organisation for the Defence of Human Rights and General Liberties in Syria – DAD Top

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