Two Kurdish men arrested in Deyrik, Syria

According to Kurdish Organization for Defending Human Rights and Public Freedoms in Syria – DAD, a patrol of the state security made the following arrests on the night of 26 October 2010 in Deyrik, Hasakah province:

• Mohammed Sadiq Mulla Hussain
• Hassan Obaid Bahram

The whereabouts of these men remains unknown.

Kurdish Organization for Defending Human Rights and Public Freedoms in Syria (DAD), condemns and strongly denounces the arrest of these people, and expresses serious concern about their fate. They call on state security services to stop making these arbitrary arrests that take place outside the law and which constitute a flagrant violation of the rights and fundamental freedoms guaranteed by the Permanent Syrian Constitution of 1973, and which are made pursuant to a State of Emergency and martial law declared in the country since 8 March 1963.

Kurdish female activist sentenced to two years in prison in Syria

Menal Ibrahim, born 1981, a Kurdish woman from Qamishli was arrested on 15 October 2009 in Aleppo when a patrol of a political state security forces stormed a Kurdish house and arrested her. She is a member of the Sittar Federation Women’s organisation.

According to Syrian Committee for Human Rights – MAD, on 26 October 2010, the Military Criminal Court in Aleppo sentenced Menal in case no. 871 of 2010 to two years imprisonment in accordance with Articles 267, 278 and 288 of the Syrian Penal Code. Read more

Forty-Eight Kurds appear in Court in Syria

According to Media Institute of West Kurdistan Society  and Syrian Committee for Human Rights – MAD, the following people have been referred to the military judge in al-Raqqa on 16 October 2010. They were arrested on 21 March 2010:

• Mohamed Ali Daooud
• Mohammed Sheikh Hosh Ali
• Haji Hoosho Ahmad
• Hamed Bozan Bozan
• Jarah Daooud Shekhu
• Saleh Mohammed Osman
• Khalil Khashman Sheikh Mohammed
• Mohiuddin Muslim Bozan
• Adel Khalil Bozan
• Kawas Ali Muslim
• Hassan Ahmad Habash
• Ayoub Khalil Khalli
• Abdul Kader Ali Shaaban
• Riad Ibrahim Khalil Sinjar
• Mustafa Ibrahim Ibo
• Maasum Mustafa Issa
• Hassan Abdi Mohammed
• Mohammed Ali Ahmed Hussein
• Iskander Mohammed Issa
• Jamaan Mohammed Issa
• Mustafa Mohamed Yassin
• Ibrahim Kawas Muslim
• Ahmed Mesho Ali
• Sabri Muhammad Nebi
• Mustafa Ahmed Hussein
• Mazloum Mohamed Othman
• Adnan Ramadan Amin
• Ramadan Mohamed Amin
• Mustafa Ali Nassan
• Abdulkadir Mahmoud Sheikh Othman
• Ibrahim Abed Hussein
• Sadiq Ibrahim Ibo
• Ali Nebo Mustafa
• Luqman Mustapha Nassan
• Mohamed Atallah Issa
• Ibrahim Mamet Mahmoud
• Mohammed Hamoud Muslim
• Nazmi Mohamed Mohamed
• Ahmed Atto Shekho Maho
• Abdul Karim Ali Mustafa
• Badrakhan Ali Derreqi
• Ramadan Bozan Bozan
• Abousr Muslim Abousr
• Khalil Osman Shekhp
• Abdel Fattah Ahmed Temer
• Muhammad Haji Ahmad
• Taha Hasan Muslim
• Ezzeddine al-Abboud Read more

Academic Kurds brought to trial in Syria

According to Syrian Committee for Human Rights – MAD, the second investigating military judge in Aleppo case heard the prosecution case no. 568 of 2010 against the lawyer Abdullah Nuri Imam, born 1974 from Kobani, and Dr. Bakhtiar Mudars al-Hussein also from Kobani  on charges of causing a rift in  national unity and disturbing the harmony between elements of the nation, and setting fire to agricultural farms close to the border,  and being resistant to legitimate actions under Articles of the General Penal Code 211-212-216-217-218-573-574-307-370-393-336 Read more

Stateless Kurds arrested in Sere Kanieh – Syria

Kurdish Organization for Defending Human Rights and Public Freedoms in Syria – DAD reports that Syrian security services arrested a number of stateless Kurds on 16 October 2010 in the city of Sere Kanieh in al-Hasakah province. A joint patrol of political security and criminal security forces broke into the Beauty Salon and arrested Zozan Mohammed Shekho, aged twenty-three years, who is a stateless Kurd, a Maktoom as a result of the exceptional census that took place in the province of Hasaka in 1962.  Kurdish Organization for Defending Human Rights and Public Freedoms in Syria – DAD has been informed that she was brought before a military judge in Qamishli charged with  inciting sectarianism. [Previous report: http://supportkurds.org/news/sere-karnieh-and-derbassiyeh-wide-campaign-of-arrests-of-kurds/].  It is believed that the reason for her arrest comes against the backdrop of being accused of singing songs that glorify the PKK during Newroz.

Political security arrested Abdul Razzaq Suleiman Sinoe, born in 1979 who is married with two daughters who is also Maktoum. Kurdish Organization for Defending Human Rights and Public Freedoms in Syria – DAD has been informed that he was arrested after being summoned by the Political Security for investigation in relation to his marriage and the lineage of his daughters. It is believed that his arrest comes against the backdrop accused of taking part in the Newroz celebrations.

On the same day a joint patrol of political security and criminal security broke into Ibrahim Khader Hussein’s business and arrested him. He is married with five children.

Kurdish Organization for Defending Human Rights and Public Freedoms in Syria – DAD condemns and deplores the detention of these Kurdish citizens and expresses deep concern over their fate. DAD calls for arbitrary arrests to stop, as they take place outside the law and they constitute a flagrant violation of fundamental rights and freedoms guaranteed by the Permanent Syrian Constitution of 1973, and result from  a State of Emergency and martial law that has existed in the country since 8 March 1963.

24 October 2010

Decree 49: Dispossession of the Kurdish population?

It is no secret that a special project for the Kurdish issue is behind the Articles of Decree 49 from 2008. This project was promoted by numerous security services and Ba’thist institutions on the grounds that there was a plan to establish Kurdish dominance over the real estate markets, particularly in al-Qamishli. It was additionally alleged that foreign investors were investing their money in wholesale trade and construction projects. As a result these institutions are of the opinion that it is a national duty to resist the supposed Kurdish expansion with further special decrees and statutes in order to stop the economic and social development of the Kurds. Read more

Kurdish politician Issa Ibrahim Hesso has been detained in Syria

Issa Ibrahim Hesso, born in 1952 and from the village Gurbawee near Qamishli, Kurdish politician and one of the Democratic Union Party – PYD leaders, was arrested by state security officials on 16 October 2010. He had been summoned repeatedly by Political Security branch in Qamishli. State Security Branch now have him in detention but there is no information about the charges that he will face or why he was arrested.

Issa Ibrahim Hesso is a member of the Council of PYD. He had been arrested three times previously, most recently on 2 November 2007 following a demonstration condemning the Turkish military intervention in Southern Kurdistan (Kurdistan_Iraq), and was charged with belonging to an unauthorized association, and inciting riots and sectarian strife. He was then sentenced to a year and a month. He is a respected, patriotic and very popular man who has been working peacefully for democracy and defending human rights. He has been actively engaged with the issues for Kurds at a time of collusion and alliances in the Middle East against the Kurdish people, for example, Iran and Turkey are using their bombs inside the Kurdistan region of Iraq,  and Turkey is working together with Syria to escalate and intensify the oppression of the Kurdish people so as to continue to withhold their basic human rights. Read more

Sere Kanieh and Derbassiyeh-wide campaign of arrests of Kurds

According to Media Institute of Western Kurdistan Society, a joint patrol of political and criminal security forces raided the house of young Marwan Issa al-Youssef in the early hours of the morning of 11 October 2010, arrested him and transferred him to Hassakah branch.

An armed security patrol arrested Ibrahim Sheikhmous on 16 October 2010 in front of his shop and treated him brutally. They handcuffed him and sent him to the Political Security branch in Hassakeh.

On the same day 16 October 2010, Zozan Mohammed Shekho was arrested and transferred to the Political Security branch in Hassakeh. Read more

Kurds in court for protesting against Decree 49

According to Kurdish Organization for Defending Human Rights and Public Freedoms in Syria – DAD, the individual military judge sitting in Qamishli city heard case no. 5641 of 2010 on 23 October 2010. He questioned the four Kurdish citizens from Hasaka province on the grounds that they were accused of joining a five minute protest against Decree 49 of 2008, which had been organised by a group of Kurdish parties in Syria on 10 September 2010, two years after it came into effect. The men were released. They are:

• Luqman Hussein Ibrahim.
• Salah Saeed Sheikhmous.
• Abdul Ghafoor Hussein Hussein.
• Saad Furman al-Hassan

The case is coming back to court on 31 October 2010. They are charged under Article 335 of the Syrian Penal Code: Read more

Muslim Hussein Abbas brought to court

Kurdish Organization for Defending Human Rights and Public Freedoms in Syria – DAD reports that the individual military judge in Qamishli questioned Muslim Hussein Abbas, on 21 October 2010 in case no. 5642 of 2010.  He is accused under Articles 288 and 307 of the Syrian Penal Code: Read more

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