{"id":243,"date":"2011-05-04T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-04T00:00:00","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=243","title":{"rendered":"Al-Jazeera journalist arrested at Damascus airport"},"content":{"rendered":"

\nAl-Jazeera journalist arrested at Damascus
\nairport<\/strong><\/a>\n<\/p>\n

\nAl Jazeera journalist, Dorothy Parvaz, who flew to Damascus
\nfrom Doha on 29 April 2011, has been arrested at Damascus airport after trying
\nto enter the country to report on the escalating events. She is currently being
\ndetained by the Syrian authorities and sources confirm that she is being "well-treated".
\nAlkarama had sent an urgent appeal on 3 May 2011 to the UN Working Group on
\nEnforced and Involuntary Disappearance, in an effort to exert pressure on the
\nSyrian government for her release, however sources later confirmed on 4 May
\n2011 that Dorothy Parvaz was in Syrian custody.\n<\/p>\n

\nNearly 7000 people on Facebook have joined the group Free
\nDorothy Parvaz – a campaign which will undoubtedly continue to grow as long as
\nshe remains in detention.\n<\/p>\n

\nParvaz spent her teenage years in North Vancouver and attended
\nthe University of British Columbia. She then studied journalism in Arizona and
\nlater worked for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer newspaper before taking the job
\nwith Al-Jazeera.\n<\/p>\n

\nWorsening human rights situation\n<\/p>\n

\nThe human rights situation in Syria has seriously degraded
\nin recent weeks, as hundreds of protestors have been killed and thousands
\narrested since demonstrations began in mid-March 2011. Sources from inside
\nSyria indicate that human rights defenders are being persecuted, while local
\nand international journalists have been arrested and are being held
\nincommunicado.\n<\/p>\n

\nKhaled Sid Mohand, a French-Algerian journalist, who
\nrecently travelled to Syria to report on events there, was arrested and
\ndetained for 24 days, before being released yesterday.\n<\/p>\n

\nThe Assad regime continues to suppress the international
\nmedia in an attempt to cover up the growing number of human rights violations
\ncommitted by the Syrian authorities. Syrian citizens are calling for democratic
\nreforms in a country, which only last week lifted its longstanding 1963
\nEmergency Law – a law that previously imposed a ban on public gatherings.\n<\/p>\n

\nSince protests began on 15 March 2011, media outlets have
\nbeen prevented from covering the gross human rights violations being committed
\nby the Syrian security forces. The world’s media has depended on email reports
\nfrom Syrian activists and amateur footage being leaked via Youtube. The images
\nhave often been graphic and violent depictions of hysteria.\n<\/p>\n

\nInternational condemnation\n<\/p>\n

\nThe Syrian government has subsequently come under heavy
\ncondemnation from the international community, in recent weeks, over its
\ncontinued violent aggression against pro-democracy demonstrators.\n<\/p>\n

\nOn 29 April 2011, the UN Human Rights Council issued
\nresolution S-16\/1 urging Syria "to immediately put an end to all human
\nrights violations, protect its population, and respect fully all human rights
\nand fundamental freedoms, including freedom of expression and freedom of
\nassembly; further urges the authorities to allow access to the Internet and
\ntelecommunications networks and to lift censorship on reporting, including by
\nallowing appropriate access by foreign journalists."\n<\/p>\n

\nAlkarama will continue to closely monitor the human rights
\nsituation in Syria, and provide any relevant updates to the UN human rights
\nbodies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\nAl-Jazeera journalist arrested at Damascus
\nairport<\/strong><\/a>\n<\/p>\n

\nAl Jazeera journalist, Dorothy Parvaz, who flew to Damascus
\nfrom Doha on 29 April 2011, has been arrested at Damascus airport after trying
\nto enter the country to report on the escalating events. She is currently being
\ndetained by the Syrian authorities and sources confirm that she is being "well-treated".<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dchrs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dchrs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dchrs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dchrs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dchrs.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dchrs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dchrs.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dchrs.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dchrs.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}