{"id":375,"date":"2011-10-13T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-13T00:00:00","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=375","title":{"rendered":"Young Syrian Protester held incommunica"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Urgent Action<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Young Syrian man Mohamad Nooh was arrested on 5 October  during a demonstration in Daraya, a suburb of Damascus, Syria. He has been held  incommunicado since his arrest in conditions amounting to an enforced  disappearance. Amnesty International fears for his health as he suffers from  liver cirrhosis and needs medical care. <\/p>\n<p>\n  Mohamad Nooh, born in 1992, was arrested during a pro-reform  demonstration in the streets of Daraya, his hometown. According to information  received by Amnesty International, the arrest was conducted by members of the  Air Force Intelligence, who arrived in marked cars. His current whereabouts are  unknown and his family is too afraid to contact the Air Force Intelligence  branch to ask about him, and is convinced that they would not receive any  information.<\/p>\n<p>\n  Amnesty International believes that he is at serious risk as  he suffers from liver cirrhosis and requires regular medication, as well as a  special diet. Friends stated that he was not carrying any medication when he  was arrested and it is unclear whether he is receiving adequate medical care.  Fears for his well-being are heightened as a number of released detainees held  during the ongoing unrest in Syria have reported that torture and other  ill-treatment is widely used by security forces.<\/p>\n<p>\n  The exact reasons for his arrest are unknown. Although he  did not have a leadership role in the organization of demonstrations in Daraya,  Mohamad Nooh may have been targeted because of his regular attendance at the  protests. If this is the case, Amnesty International would consider him to be a  prisoner of conscience, detained solely for the peaceful exercise of his right  to freedom of assembly and freedom of expression. <\/p>\n<p>\n  Please write immediately in Arabic, English or your own  language:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span dir=\"ltr\"> <\/span>Expressing concern that  Mohamad Nooh is being held incommunicado in conditions amounting to an enforced  disappearance and asking for information on his whereabouts, the reason for his  arrest and his legal status; <\/li>\n<li><span dir=\"ltr\"> <\/span>Calling for him to be  protected from torture and other ill-treatment, allowed contact with his family  and a lawyer of his choice, and provided with regular medication and any  medical care he requires; <\/li>\n<li><span dir=\"ltr\"> <\/span>Expressing concern that  Mohamad Nooh may be detained solely for peacefully exercising his rights to  freedom of expression and assembly and noting that, if this is the case,  Amnesty International would consider him to be a prisoner of conscience and  call for his immediate and unconditional release;<\/li>\n<li><span dir=\"ltr\"> <\/span>Urging the Syrian  authorities to take immediate steps to name and disclose the whereabouts of all  political detainees and to give them immediate access to lawyers of their  choosing and their families, and to safeguard them from torture and other  ill-treatment. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>PLEASE SEND APPEALS BEFORE 24 NOVEMBER 2011 TO:<\/p>\n<p>  President<br \/>\n  Bashar al-Assad\u00a0<br \/>\n  Presidential Palace<br \/>\n  al-Rashid Street<br \/>\n  Damascus, Syrian Arab Republic<br \/>\n  Fax: +963 11 332 3410<br \/>\n  Salutation: Your Excellency<br \/>\n  Minister of Foreign Affairs<br \/>\n  Walid al-Mu&rsquo;allim<br \/>\n  Ministry of Foreign Affairs<br \/>\n  al-Rashid Street<br \/>\n  Damascus, Syrian Arab Republic<br \/>\n  Fax: +963 11 214 6251<br \/>\n  Salutation: Your Excellency<\/p>\n<p>Also send copies to diplomatic representatives accredited to  your country. Please insert local diplomatic addresses below:<br \/>\n  Name Address 1 Address 2 Address 3 Fax Fax number Email  Email address Salutation Salutation<\/p>\n<p>Please check with your section office if sending appeals  after the above date. <\/p>\n<p>  URGENT ACTION<br \/>\n  YOUNG SYRIAN PROTESTER HELD INCOMMUNICADO<br \/>\n  ADDITIONAL INFORMATION<br \/>\n  Since the beginning of the popular protests in mid-March,  the Syrian security forces have arrested thousands of people across the  country. Amnesty International has received numerous accounts of detainees  being tortured or otherwise ill-treated as well as reports of over 130 deaths  in custody, in many cases as an apparent result of such abuses.<\/p>\n<p>According to human rights activists, Air Force Intelligence  oversees arrests in Daraya, a suburb of Damascus. Along with the other Syrian  intelligence services, it regularly detains people suspected of opposing the  government and holds them incommunicado for lengthy periods in detention  centres that are notorious for subjecting detainees to torture and other  ill-treatment both as a means to obtain a &ldquo;confession&rdquo; and as a way of  punishing those who protest to intimidate others into not joining them. <\/p>\n<p>One detained activist from Daraya, Ghayath Mattar, was  arrested along with a number of other young protesters on 6 September. His body  was returned to his family four days later. The official reason given for his  death was that he was shot and killed by &rdquo;armed gangs&rdquo;, but, according to  witnesses and video footage seen by Amnesty International, his body showed  signs of beatings and other ill-treatment. For further information, please  refer to Urgent Action: Syrian activists held incommunicado at risk, AI index:  MDE 24 050 2011 (<a href=\"http:\/\/amnesty.org\/en\/library\/info\/MDE24\/050\/2011\/en\">http:\/\/amnesty.org\/en\/library\/info\/MDE24\/050\/2011\/en<\/a>)  and Urgent Action: Further information: Death in custody of Syrian activist, AI  index: MDE 24 052 2011\u00a0 (<a href=\"http:\/\/amnesty.org\/en\/library\/info\/MDE24\/052\/2011\/en\">http:\/\/amnesty.org\/en\/library\/info\/MDE24\/052\/2011\/en<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Name: Mohamad Nooh<br \/>\n  Gender m\/f: M<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\n<strong>Urgent Action<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nYoung Syrian man  Mohamad Nooh was arrested on 5 October during a demonstration in Daraya, a  suburb of Damascus, Syria. He has been held incommunicado since his arrest in  conditions amounting to an enforced disappearance. Amnesty International fears  for his health as he suffers from liver cirrhosis and needs medical care.<\/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-375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dchrs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375","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=375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dchrs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dchrs.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dchrs.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dchrs.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}