{"id":308,"date":"2011-07-22T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-22T00:00:00","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=308","title":{"rendered":"Syria \u2013 Risk of torture and extrajudicial killing of a known Syrian author"},"content":{"rendered":"

\nSyria – Risk of torture and extrajudicial killing of a
\nknown Syrian author<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n

\n22 July 2011\n<\/p>\n

\nDr Mohamed Jamal Al Tahhan is aged 54 years and married with
\nfour children. He usually lives with his family in Al Miridyan region, Aleppo.
\nHe is a member at the Arab Writers’ Union as well as the Federation of Arab
\nJournalists. Mr Al Tahhan holds a PhD in philosophy and is the author of many
\nbooks such as Makers of civilization.\n<\/p>\n

\nOn 19 July 2011, Mr Al Tahhan was arrested at his home by
\ntwo agents of the Aleppo Air Intelligence Branch who were wearing civilian
\nclothes. During his arrest, these agents didn’t present any judicial warrant
\nnor did they give a reason for his arrest. They then took Mr Al Tahhan to an
\nunknown location. Mr Al Tahan’s fate or whereabouts remains unknown as the
\nAleppo Air Intelligence Branch refused to provide any information.\n<\/p>\n

\nOn 22 July 2011, Alkrama submitted an urgent appeal
\nregarding Mr Al Tahhan’s case to the Special Rapporteur on Torture and also informed
\nthe Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances, the Special
\nRapporteur on extrajudicial executions and the Special Rapporteur on the
\npromotion and the protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression.\n<\/p>\n

\nIt is believed that Mr Al Tahhan’s arrest is due to his
\npeaceful activities in the current context of peaceful demonstrations in Syria.
\nA number of other human rights defenders and political activists have also been
\nrearrested in the same day as Mr
\nGeorge Sabra.<\/a>\n<\/p>\n

\nAlkarama is very concerned about his health and fears for
\nhis life, especially that Mr Al Tahhan is suffering from Prostate cancer, high
\nblood pressure and is not being given his medication. Moreover, we are aware of
\nthe large number of deaths following torture which have occurred in Syria in
\nrecent months.\n<\/p>\n

\nWe are also seriously concerned about the repression of
\npeaceful demonstrators and other activists deprived of all fundamentals
\nsafeguards. We therefore request the Syrian government to remedy to the
\nsituation by releasing all political activists in Syria and refrain from
\narbitrary arrests and torture.\n<\/p>\n

\nTo learn more:\n<\/p>\n

\nhttp:\/\/www.discover-syria.com\/news\/6340<\/a>\n<\/p>\n

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\nDr Mohamed Jamal Al Tahhan is aged 54 years and married with
\nfour children. He usually lives with his family in Al Miridyan region, Aleppo.
\nHe is a member at the Arab Writers’ Union as well as the Federation of Arab
\nJournalists. Mr Al Tahhan holds a PhD in philosophy and is the author of many
\nbooks such as Makers of civilization.<\/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-308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dchrs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308","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=308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dchrs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dchrs.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dchrs.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dchrs.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}