Tuesday, September 28, 2010

News at Eleven: "Detaining a high school student for nine months

without charge is typical of the cruel, arbitrary behavior of Syria's security services," said Sarah Leah Whitson, Middle East director at Human Rights Watch. "A government that thinks it can get away with trampling the rights of its citizens has lost all connection to its people."

It is unclear why the authorities have detained al-Mallohi. According to her family, [Tal] al-Mallohi, who is in her last year of high school, does not belong to any political group. Some Syrian activists have expressed concerns that security services may have detained her over a poem she wrote criticizing certain restrictions on freedom of expression in Syria.

from Human Rights Watch: Syria: Release Student Blogger Held Incommunicado
then Amnesty International: Urgent Action: Demand Release for Syrian Blogger
then Ekklesia: Teenage Syrian blogger at risk of torture in prison

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