Mahmoud Safo, member of Kurdish Left Party, Syria sentenced to one year

According to Kurdish Organization for Defending Human Rights and Public Freedoms in Syria – DAD,  Mahmoud Safo who was arrested on 28 March 2010 was sentenced on 20 June 2010 by an individual military judge in Qamishli to one year imprisonment, for inciting racial and sectarian hatred, and for being a leader of a secret unlicensed association. He is a member of the Political Bureau of the Kurdish Left Party.

Kurdish Organization for Defending Human Rights and Public Freedoms in Syria – DAD continues to call for an end to arbitrary detention, and the release of all political prisoners and prisoners of opinion. We want to see democratic freedom and the abolition of the state of emergency and martial law, and respect for international conventions and covenants on human rights, so that the Syrian citizen can live in peace, freedom and tranquility.

Kurdish Organization for Defending Human Rights and Public Freedoms in Syria – DAD,  21 June 2010

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