Syria: FREED - Ma'an Aqil released after nearly three months arbitrary detention

Wednesday, 24 February 2010 11:35

Alkarama has just been informed that Syrian journalist, Ma'an Aqil, was release by the Syrian
authorities on Tuesday 23 February 2010, after spending nearly three months in jail without any
legal proceedings.

The journalist of Damascus-based Al-Thawra newspaper was arrested by element of the

General Intelligence Department on 22 November 2009. Ma'an Aqil had previously been
arrested in 1987 in a politically motivated arrest, and spent nine years behind bars. In response
to his most recent arrest, Alkarama sent Ma'an Aqil's case to the Working Group on Arbitrary
Detention on 11 December 2009 .

Alkarama takes this opportunity to demand that the Syrian authorities release all prisoners of
conscience and to the stopping targeting them through arbitrary arrest.

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