{"id":760,"date":"2012-07-25T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-07-25T00:00:00","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=760","title":{"rendered":"FIDH and LDH ask French judicial to investigate  on the involvement of French companies in Syria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Joint press release<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Paris, 25 July 2012&nbsp;<\/strong>\u2013 FIDH and LDH today filed a  complaint with the Public Prosecutor at the Paris Court to urge the French judicial  to investigate the involvement of French companies, especially <strong>Qosmos<\/strong>,  in supplying the Bachar El Assad regime with surveillance equipment.<\/p>\n<p>\n  <strong>Qosmos<\/strong>, a company specialised in supplying Deep Packet Inspection,  material designed for real time analysis of digital data that transit over the  network, has been called into question several times by several difference  sources, for contributing to supplying the Syrian region with the electronic  surveillance equipment needed to quell the opposition that has been going on in  Syria since March 2011.<\/p>\n<p>\n  <strong><em>&ldquo;At a time when the French authorities are strongly criticising Bachar El  Assad&rsquo;s violence against the Syrian people, it is vital that full information  be made available on the involvement of French companies in supplying  surveillance equipment to the Syrian regime&rdquo;<\/em><\/strong>, since Patrick Baudouin,  FIDH Honorary President.<\/p>\n<p>\n  <strong><em>&ldquo;Western companies must know that they cannot sell this type of equipment  to authoritarian regimes without being held accountable, and without worrying about  what happens when these regimes use this material&rdquo;<\/em><\/strong>, said Michel  Tubiana, LDH Honorary President.<\/p>\n<p>\n  The repression orchestrated by the Syrian regime for the last 16 months against  its own people has led to at least 16,000 deaths, mainly civilians, and the  arbitrary detention of tens of thousands of people and a large number of forced  disappearances. People are systematically tortured in the detention centres.  Victims of repression include human rights defenders, activists, including  cyber-activists who have been singled out because of their efforts to  communicate and denounce human rights violations. The regime&rsquo;s tight hand over  the communications tools used by the population and the activists seems to have  contributed extensively to exposing these people to the repression they have  been and still are suffering.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Source URL: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fidh.org\/FIDH-and-LDH-ask-French-judicial\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.fidh.org\/FIDH-and-LDH-ask-French-judicial<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Joint press release<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Paris, 25 July 2012&nbsp;<\/strong>\u2013 FIDH and LDH today filed a  complaint with the Public Prosecutor at the Paris Court to urge the French judicial  to investigate the involvement of French companies, especially <strong>Qosmos<\/strong>,  in supplying the Bachar El Assad regime with surveillance equipment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dchrs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760","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\/64"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dchrs.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dchrs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dchrs.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dchrs.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dchrs.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}