{"id":1857,"date":"2014-09-24T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-09-24T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","slug":"","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dchrs.org\/?p=1857","title":{"rendered":"SYRIA: SCIENTIST FACING UNFAIR TRIAL, RISKS TORTURE"},"content":{"rendered":"

\nSyrian physicist Faten Rajab Fawaz, a prisoner of conscience, is awaiting trial before a Military Field Court, whose proceedings are grossly unfair. She has been detained since 24 December 2011, seemingly as a result of her peaceful activism.<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n

\n \n<\/p>\n

\nWhen pro-reform protests began in Syria in 2011, Faten Rajab Fawaz<\/strong> frequently joined peaceful demonstrations in and around the capital, Damascus, to demand changes to the political system. She is now a prisoner of conscience, detained solely for exercising her right to freedom of expression and freedom of assembly.\n<\/p>\n

\n \n<\/p>\n

\nHer lawyer told Amnesty International that Faten Rajab Fawaz was arrested by Syrian Air Force Intelligence officers in Damascus and held in solitary confinement for about a month at their headquarters. Over the following two years, she was transferred to a number of different detention facilities and spent at least another three months in solitary confinement. She was held in conditions amounting to enforced disappearance as, according to her lawyer, the authorities provided no official information about what had happened to her. Her lawyer believes that she was tortured and otherwise ill-treated during this time and is now in poor health as a result. From August 2013, she was transferred repeatedly between ‘Adra Prison, where she sometimes had access to her lawyer, and a Military Intelligence branch. Her current whereabouts are unknown.\n<\/p>\n

\n \n<\/p>\n

\nThe charges against her are unclear, but her case was recently transferred to a Military Field Court. These courts are presided over by military judges and their proceedings are grossly unfair. Defendants have no right to legal representation and proceedings are conducted in secret. Verdicts handed down by the court are not subject to appeal and these courts can impose harsh sentences, including the death penalty.\n<\/p>\n

\n \n<\/p>\n

\nPlease write immediately in Arabic, English or your own language:<\/strong>
\nUrging the Syrian authorities to release Faten Rajab Fawaz immediately and unconditionally as she is a prisoner of conscience and ensure that she is provided with effective redress for the violations of her human rights;\n<\/p>\n

\n \n<\/p>\n

\nReminding them that civilians must not be tried by military courts;
\nDemanding that Faten Rajab Fawaz is protected from torture and other ill-treatment, is given immediate access to her family and provided with any medical attention she may require.\n<\/p>\n

\n \n<\/p>\n

\nPLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 5 NOVEMBER 2014 TO:<\/strong>
\nPermanent Representative to the UN
\nBashar Ja’afari, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary
\n820 Second Avenue, 15th Floor, New York, NY 10017
\nFax: +1 212 983 4439
\nE-mail: exesec.syria@gmail.com
\nSalutation: Your Excellency<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n

\n \n<\/p>\n

\nPresident
\nBashar al-Assad
\nFax: +963 11 332 3410 (keep trying)
\n(If fax does not go through, please include your message to the president in an email to the Ambassador, asking for it to be forwarded)
\nSalutation: Your Excellency<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n

\n \n<\/p>\n

\nMinister of Justice
\nDr Najm al-Ahmad
\nFax: +963 11 666 2460
\n(If fax does not go through, please include your message to the president in an email to the Ambassador, asking for it to be forwarded)
\nSalutation: Your Excellency<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n

\n \n<\/p>\n

\nAlso send copies to diplomatic representatives accredited to your country. Please insert local diplomatic addresses below:<\/strong>
\nName Address 1 Address 2 Address 3 Fax Fax number Email Email address Salutation Salutation
\nPlease check with your section office if sending appeals after the above date.\n<\/p>\n

\n \n<\/p>\n

\nADDITIONAL INFORMATION<\/strong>
\nFor an insight into the widespread torture and other ill-treatment in Syria’s detention centres, see I wanted to die: Syria’s torture survivors speak out
\n(http:\/\/www.amnesty.org\/en\/library\/info\/MDE24\/016\/2012\/en<\/a>).\n<\/p>\n

\n \n<\/p>\n

\n Thousands are reported to have died in the custody of the Syrian security forces since unrest began in 2011. Amnesty International documented this practice in the report Deadly detention: Deaths in custody amid popular protest in Syria
\n(http:\/\/www.amnesty.org\/en\/library\/info\/MDE24\/035\/2011\/en<\/a>).\n<\/p>\n

\n \n<\/p>\n

\n For further information on detention conditions in some of the branches of Syria’s security forces, please also refer to Amnesty International’s current campaign against enforced disappearances: https:\/\/campaigns.amnesty.org\/campaigns\/conflict-in-syria.<\/a>\n<\/p>\n

\n \n<\/p>\n

\nName: Faten Rajab Fawaz
\nGender m\/f: f\n<\/p>\n

\nSource URL:
\nhttp:\/\/www.amnesty.org\/ar\/library\/asset\/MDE24\/042\/2014\/en\/811b3bd1-7c96-4b70-8c9c-5f9c6affb606\/mde240422014en.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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