\nURGENT ACTION\n<\/p>\n
\nHUNDREDS OF PRISONERS RELEASED IN SYRIA<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n \nHundreds of people arrested during protests in Syria have \nThose freed before the “general amnesty” include Mohammed \nAmnesty International received reports that Mohammed Hasan \nAmnesty International is not aware whether Firas Fayyad or \nAmong the detainees who, as far as Amnesty International is \nPresident Bashar al-Assad announced on 31 May a “general \nAmnesty International has called on Syria’s President to \n \n<\/p>\n \nMany thanks to all who sent appeals! We will close this \nThis is the fourth update of UA 87\/11. Further information: http:\/\/www.amnesty.org\/en\/library\/info\/MDE24\/013\/2011\/en<\/a>\n<\/p>\n \nhttp:\/\/www.amnesty.org\/en\/library\/info\/MDE24\/014\/2011\/en<\/a>\n<\/p>\n \nhttp:\/\/www.amnesty.org\/en\/library\/info\/MDE24\/016\/2011\/en<\/a>\n<\/p>\n
\nnow been released, some individually in previous months and some following a
\n“general amnesty” on 31 May 2011. Nonetheless, arrests continue on a daily
\nbasis and hundreds of people remain in incommunicado detention, where they are
\nat risk of torture and other ill-treatment.\n<\/p>\n
\nHasan al-Labwani, Hassan ‘Abd al-‘Adhim, aged 79, and ‘Omar Qashaash, aged 85,
\nAhmed Haji Khalaf, Manhal Mahmoud Barish and his two brothers Ayham and Shadi
\nBarish, who were all released on different dates between 5 and 26 May. In
\naddition, Dorothy Parvaz was deported to Iran by the Syrian authorities
\nfollowing her arrest at Damascus airport on 29 April and released from the
\ncustody of the Iranian authorities on 18 May.\n<\/p>\n
\nal-Labwani and others were tortured or otherwise ill-treated while in
\ndetention. Dorothy Parvaz’s testimony to Al Jazeera about her detention
\ndescribes what sounded like other detainees being subjected to torture during
\ninterrogation: http:\/\/english.aljazeera.net\/indepth\/opinion\/2011\/05\/2011518184325620380.html<\/a>\n<\/p>\n
\n‘Abdullah Khalil have been released.\n<\/p>\n
\naware, remain detained incommunicado, is political activist Wa’el Hammada, who
\nappears to be held by the Air Force Security in Damascus. His brother ‘Abd
\nal-Rahman Hammada was transferred yesterday to Damascus Central Prison (also
\nknown as ‘Adra prison) and is no longer held incommunicado. Please see UA
\n149\/11 Index: MDE 24\/023\/2011 Syria and follow-up.\n<\/p>\n
\namnesty” for those convicted and imprisoned for certain offences committed
\nbefore that date. As a result several hundred prisoners, including detainees
\nwhom the authorities described as members of the banned Muslim Brotherhood and
\nother “politically affiliated” prisoners, were released. Those amnestied
\nincluded about nine individuals imprisoned in previous years who Amnesty
\nInternational had determined were prisoners of conscience.\n<\/p>\n
\nfully implement the “general amnesty” by immediately freeing all prisoners of
\nconscience, including those detained because of their participation in peaceful
\nprotests.\n<\/p>\n
\nbroad-reaching UA, but will continue issuing UAs about individual Syrians who
\nare at risk of human rights abuses in the context of the current unrest.\n<\/p>\n