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Amnesty international is concerned at reports that twelve executions have taken place by hanging and firing squad in Syria since 14 May 1985, nine of them in public.

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Amnesty International is deeply concerned at reports it has received of the death in custody as a resutlf of torture of Muhammad Al-‘Arraj and the torture of seven member of Hisb al-Amal al-Shuyau’I, party Communist Action (PCA).

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Palestinians arrested or kidnapped in Lebanon have been among thousands of political victims of torture in Syria in recent years, Amnesty international said today (Wednesday 28 October).

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In a research paper entitled Syria: Torture by the Security Forced (published on 28 October 1987), Amnesty International describes its concerns in Syria, these include torture, deaths in detention, inadequate medical care in prisons and inadequate legal protection of prisoners. This paper, based on the above publication, concentrates on issues relevant to health professionals.

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According to Amnesty international’s information, 31 Lebanese nationals, who were arrested by Syrian security forces in Tripoli, Beirut and the Beka Valley between February and October 1986, continue to be held without a trial.

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Amnesty International said today (Thursday 12 March) in had had called on the Syrian Government to investigate reports of revenge massacres of unarmed civilians -  including women and children -  by Syrian troops and militias supported by them in two Lebanese cities in the past three months.

Amnesty Internationl has received reports that over 200 people were killed by Syrian troops and Syrian - backed forces in the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli in the third week of December 1986.

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Fourteen persons were sentenced to death last week by the state security court of Aleppo, Northern Syria. Twelve were sentenced in absentia. Two, however, are in custody and reportedly face execution very soon.

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Syria’s history since independence in 1964 has been dominated by a continues state of war with Israel. Its geo-political position in the Arab world has made it the object of conflicting external pressure aimed at Syria’s alignment with its Arab neighbors. These factors have contributed to a long period of internal instability.