{"id":403,"date":"2011-11-21T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-11-21T00:00:00","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=403","title":{"rendered":"Arrest of a college student  Baher Abdul Razzaq  Member of the Syrian Organization for Human Rights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Statement <\/p>\n<p>  In course of the unfair campaign waged by the security  services and semi security that has been unleashed in Syria against civil  society activists and human rights defenders.<br \/>\n  At exactly nine o&#8217;clock in the morning of Friday18\/11\/2011 the military  intelligence &ldquo;branch 291&rdquo; arrest college student and our colleague: <strong>Baher  Abdul Razzaq <\/strong>Member of the Syrian Organization for Human Rights&nbsp;After three days of going back and forth, staying for  twelve hours a day at the branch mentioned above. This action step reflects the  determination to escalate the Pressure against the human rights defenders and  supporters of freedom, democracy and human dignity in Syria.<\/p>\n<p>The Syrian Organization for Human Rights Condemned this  outrageous approach of the Syrian authorities based on the arrests ,  abductions, disappearances, torture ,exclusion and recently \u00a0extrajudicial killings of Syrian citizens.<\/p>\n<p>The Syrian Organization for Human Rights is very concerned  over the fate of our colleague and &nbsp;blogger <strong>Baher Abdul Razzaq<\/strong> and  remind &nbsp;the Syrian authorities that this conduct collides with its  obligations under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and  the International Convention against Torture and Cruelty, and the United  Nations Declaration issued in December 1998 and the Protection of human rights  defenders and the recommendations of the Commission on Human Rights Defenders,  in particular the sixth paragraph of the ecommendations  of the Commission its session eighty-fourth (July 2005), as well as paragraph  twelve of these recommendations, which state that Syria is require to  immediately release &nbsp;all persons detained because of their activities in  the field of human rights and put an end to all practices in the harassment and  intimidation against human rights defenders.<\/p>\n<p>  The Syrian Organization for Human Rights is calling for Syrian security  authorities to release the fellow blogger <strong>Baher Abdul Razzaq<\/strong> with the  all prisoners of opinion in Syria, and conscience and proceed immediately an  initiatives to restore confidence between the political system and society, and  begins withdraw of the army to its barracks , and the release of political prisoners  without exception, and the recognition of the legitimate demands of the Syrian  people, which manifested itself with the Arab Spring, and that dream of a state  civil pluralism and the Constitution of modern, democratic, not a resident  governor was made based on the recognition of human dignity and fundamental  rights of the Syrian citizen.<\/p>\n<p>  The Syrian Organization for Human Rights calls upon all bodies and institutions  working in the field of human rights with responsibilities to the university  student and colleague and blogger <strong>Baher Abdul Razzaq<\/strong> and do whatever it  takes to find succor in their just cause.<br \/>\n  &nbsp;<br \/>\n  Damascus 22\/11\/2011<br \/>\n  Board of Directors<br \/>\n  The Syrian Organization for Human Rights (SWASIAH)<br \/>\n  \u00b7&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Everyone  has the right to life, liberty and security of person.<br \/>\n  (Article \/3\/ of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights)<br \/>\n  \u00b7&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Everyone  has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom  to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart  information and ideas through any&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; media and  regardless of frontiers..<br \/>\n  (Article \/19\/of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights)<br \/>\n  \u00b7&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; No one  shall be subjected to arbitrary arrest, detention or exile<br \/>\n  (Article \/9\/of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\nThe Syrian Organization for Human Rights (SWASIAH)\n<\/p>\n<p>\nIn course of the unfair campaign waged by the security  services and semi security that has been unleashed in Syria against civil  society activists and human rights defenders.  At exactly nine o&#8217;clock in the morning of Friday18\/11\/2011 the military  intelligence &ldquo;branch 291&rdquo; arrest college student and our colleague: <strong>Baher  Abdul Razzaq <\/strong>Member of the Syrian Organization for Human Rights<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dchrs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dchrs.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dchrs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dchrs.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dchrs.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dchrs.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}