{"id":519,"date":"2012-04-27T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-04-27T00:00:00","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=519","title":{"rendered":"Syrian Human Rights Lawyer Released: Abdullah al-Khalil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>27-April-2012<\/p>\n<p>Human rights  lawyer Abdullah al-Khalil was released on 28 March.<\/p>\n<p>Following  his release, he sent Amnesty International a message saying, &quot;Best wishes  to everyone.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>There are unconfirmed reports that he was beaten and otherwise  ill-treated while detained. It is unclear whether there are any charges  outstanding against him or whether he continues to be harassed on account of  his work. Amnesty  International will continue to monitor the situation and update you if more  details regarding his arrest, detention and release become available.<\/p>\n<p>Abdullah al-Khalil is a well-known lawyer who represents political  prisoners and prisoners of conscience. He was arrested on a street in al-Raqqa,  eastern Syria,  on 3 February 2012. It was the fourth time he was arrested since May 2011. Apparently  on account of his human rights work, his family\u2019s farmhouse was demolished on  the orders of the local authorities and he also received some death threats. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Many thanks to all who sent appeals. No further  action is requested from the UA network.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This is the  first update of UA: 86\/12. Further information: <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/amnesty.org\/en\/library\/info\/MDE24\/028\/2012\/en\">http:\/\/amnesty.org\/en\/library\/info\/MDE24\/028\/2012\/en<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amnesty International 27-April-2012<\/p>\n<p>Human rights  lawyer Abdullah al-Khalil was released on 28 March, Following  his release, he sent Amnesty International a message saying, &quot;Best wishes  to everyone.&quot;<\/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-519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dchrs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519","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=519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dchrs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dchrs.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dchrs.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dchrs.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}