{"id":305,"date":"2011-07-18T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-18T00:00:00","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=305","title":{"rendered":"Syria – enforced disappearance of Syrian young activist since 14 May 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"

\nSyria – enforced disappearance of Syrian young activist
\nsince 14 May 2011<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n

\n18 July 2011\n<\/p>\n

\nMr Anas Al Shugri is aged 22 years, from Al-Bayda village in
\nBanyas, and a third-year university student in economics. Mr Al Shugri was
\narrested on 14 May 2011 and there has been no news of him since. The Syrian
\nauthorities deny Mr Al Shugri’s arrest and detention and therefore Alkarama
\nsubmitted Mr Al Shugri’s case to the UN Working Group on Enforced or
\nInvoluntary Disappearances on 15 July 2011.\n<\/p>\n

\nMr Al Shugri is one of the organizers of the peaceful
\ndemonstrations in the city of Banyas. He is well respected among the
\ndemonstrators in Banyas as one of the first who called for demonstrations in
\nthe city, as well as somebody who led and organized these and ensured they have
\nremained peaceful. Furthermore, Mr Al Shugri has testified to the human rights
\nviolations perpetrated by the authorities during these protests on Arab and
\ninternational media.\n<\/p>\n

\nIn order to refute claims by the official Syrian media about
\nfalse witnesses giving wrong information to satellite channels, Mr Al Shugri
\ndid not withhold his real name when reporting on events occurring in Banyas.
\nBecause he is publicly known as an organizer of demonstrations and therefore
\nseen as a threat by the Syrian regime, the Syrian media have accused him of
\nbeing the leader of a terrorist gang and of being involved in smuggling
\nactivities, but have failed to provide any evidence in support of these
\naccusations.\n<\/p>\n

\nSources reported that Mr Al Shugri may have been wanted by
\nthe security services since the raid on Al Bayda on 12 April 2011, where Mr Al
\nShugri was born and grew up. Some media reports in fact suggest that the raid
\non Al Bayda in particular aimed at arresting Mr Al Shugri. Following the
\ngeneral raid on Banyas on 7 May 2011, which attempted to suppress the protests
\nin the city, Mr Al Shugri was eventually arrested on 14 May 2011 by the
\nMilitary Intelligence Services in a barn he was hiding between the villages of
\nAl-Basateen and Al-Murah, both of which are in the direct proximity of Banyas
\n(approximately 7 km away).\n<\/p>\n

\nAccording to our information, the person who informed the
\nsecurity services about Mr Al Shugri’s hiding place confirmed that Mr Al Shugri
\nhad been arrested by the Military Intelligence Services. Alkarama has also
\nobtained information that Mr Al Shugri had been taken to the Palestine Branch
\nDetention Centre in Damascus. However, the Syrian authorities deny Mr Al
\nShugri’s arrest and detention.\n<\/p>\n

\nBecause of his leading role in the peaceful demonstrations
\nin Banyas, Mr Al Shugri has become a symbol of peaceful resistance among the
\nprotestors. Many people are therefore concerned for his physical and mental
\nintegrity. Alkarama requests that Syrian authorities immediately release Mr Al
\nShugri and refrain from arbitrary arrests and detention.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\nSyria – enforced disappearance of Syrian young activist
\nsince 14 May 2011<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n

\nMr Anas Al Shugri is aged 22 years, from Al-Bayda village in
\nBanyas, and a third-year university student in economics. Mr Al Shugri was
\narrested on 14 May 2011 and there has been no news of him since. The Syrian
\nauthorities deny Mr Al Shugri’s arrest and detention and therefore Alkarama
\nsubmitted Mr Al Shugri’s case to the UN Working Group on Enforced or
\nInvoluntary Disappearances on 15 July 2011.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dchrs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dchrs.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dchrs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dchrs.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dchrs.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dchrs.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}