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	<title>Support Kurds in Syria</title>
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	<description>Website of the International Support Kurds in Syria Association</description>
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		<title>New Home Office/UK Borders Agency Country of Origin Information Report regarding Syria</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Home Office/UK Borders Agency has prepared an updated Country of Origin Information Report regarding Syria, dated 3 September 2010.
The full report can be accessed here:  http://rds.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/country_reports.html#countries
Kurdish political activists
15.25     The May 2010 report, Human rights issues concerning Kurds in Syria, on the joint fact finding mission by the Danish Immigration Service (DIS) and ACCORD/Austrian Red [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://supportkurds.org/reports/new-home-officeuk-borders-agency-country-of-origin-information-report-regarding-syria/</link>
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		<title>Syrian Kurd freed after two weeks in custody</title>
		<description><![CDATA[‘Abd  al-Karim Hussein, a Syrian Kurdish man held incommunicado after his  forcible return from Norway, was released without charge on 02  September. 
‘Abd al-Karim Hussein was forcibly  returned from Norway on 18 August and was detained upon arrival to Syria  on 19 August. He was incommunicado throughout the period of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://supportkurds.org/news/syrian-kurd-freed-after-two-weeks-in-custody/</link>
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		<title>Kurdish detainee, Riad Ahmad Khalil has died in prison in Syria</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Media Institute of Western Kurdistan Society,  the Syrian Committee for Human Rights – MAD and the Kurdish Organization for Defending Human Rights and Public Freedoms in Syria – DAD  report that Riad Ahmad Khalil, born 1968, from Afrin in the province of Aleppo, died in mysterious circumstances on 28 August 2010 whilst in the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://supportkurds.org/news/kurdish-detainee-riad-ahmad-khalil-has-died-in-prison-in-syria/</link>
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		<title>Kurdish human rights activist Abdul-Hafiz Abdul al-Rahman is released, in Syria</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Abdul-Hafiz Abdul al-Rahman was released on Wednesday 1 September 2010 by the third individual military judge in Aleppo. Abdul Hafiz Abdul Rahman is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Human Rights Organization in Syria – MAF.  He was questioned at the first session on 30 August 2010, and his case will [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://supportkurds.org/news/kurdish-human-rights-activist-abdul-hafiz-abdul-al-rahman-is-released-in-syria/</link>
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		<title>Another arbirtrary arrest of a Kurdish man in Syria</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Kurdish Organization for Defending Human Rights and Public Freedoms in Syria –DAD reports that a patrol of the State Security Branch in Qamishli arrested Emad Askan Ahmed at about 11pm on Friday 27 August 2010, without a warrant or court order. He was taken to an unknown destination, and his whereabouts remain unknown at the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://supportkurds.org/news/another-arbirtrary-arrest-of-a-kurdish-man-in-syria/</link>
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		<title>Efraz Mohammed Amin Yousef in court in Syria</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Military Criminal Court in Aleppo heard the case of Efraz Mohammed Amin Yousef on 25 August 2010,  in case no. 598 of 2010. He was imprisoned for three years, on charges of weakening national sentiment, according to Article 285 of the General Penal Code. The sentence was commuted to one year.
Efraz Mohammed Amin Yousef [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://supportkurds.org/news/efraz-mohammed-amin-yousef-in-court-in-syria/</link>
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		<title>Mohammed Saadoun in Court in Syria</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Military judge in Qamishli questioned Mohammed Saadoun, member of the Political Committee of the Kurdish Azadi Party in Syria
The individual military judge in Qamishli heard the case of Mohammed Saadoun member of the Political Committee of the Kurdish Azadi Party in Syria, on Tuesday 24 August 2010 [case no. 4928 of 2009].
In answer to the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://supportkurds.org/news/military-judge-in-qamishli-questioned-mohammed-saadoun-member-of-the-political-committee-of-the-kurdish-azadi-party-in-syria/</link>
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		<title>A Syrian Kurdish man has been held incommunicado since 19 August 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[UA: 188/10 Index: MDE 24/023/2010 Syria        Date: 26 August 2010
A  Syrian Kurdish man has been held incommunicado since 19 August, after  he was forcibly returned to Syria from Norway. He is in grave danger of  torture.
‘Abd al-Karim Hussein was detained on arrival at Damascus International Airport on 19 August. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://supportkurds.org/news/a-syrian-kurdish-man-has-been-held-incommunicado-since-19-august-2010/</link>
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		<title>US Journalist Deported from Turkey After Reporting on Plight of Kurds</title>
		<description><![CDATA[See the video of this interview on our homepage.
Twenty-five-year-old American journalist Jake Hess was arrested in Turkey nearly two weeks ago and deported back to the United States over the weekend. Turkey accused him of allegedly having ties with the banned Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, which Turkey and the United States classify as a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://supportkurds.org/news/us-journalist-deported-from-turkey-after-reporting-on-plight-of-kurds/</link>
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		<title>A new victim of the mysterious killings in the Syrian army</title>
		<description><![CDATA[According to Kurdish Organization for Defending Human Rights and Public Freedoms in Syria – DAD and the Media Institute of Western Kurdistan Society, the family of a military conscript, Shiar Osman Osman, born 1991 in Deyrik, were told on the morning of Sunday, 22 August 2010 about the death of their son, who was serving [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://supportkurds.org/news/a-new-victim-of-the-mysterious-killings-in-the-syrian-army/</link>
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