An urgent apeal to the public opinion about the detainee Tahsein Khairi Mamo

To Gentlemen officials:
Amnesty International.
And Human Rights Watch.
Greetings:

We  would like to inform you that the detainee Tahsein Khairi Mamo, who was arrested in the city of Aleppo – Al-Sheikh Maksoud – with four others of his comrades Nazmi Mohamed Hanan, Dilkash Shamo  Mamo, Ahmed Khalil Darwish, Yasha Khaled Qadir, who are all members of our party – the Kurdish Yekiti Party in Syria – were taken by military intelligence after they broke into Yasha Khaled’s  house  on  29 January 2007, is still missing. His fate has been unknown over the last two years in spite of his parents’ repeated and continued attempts  in asking the related authorities  to  get information about his fate, and they did not receive any answers  until now. They are afraid  that he might have been killed under torture, and all the information  confirms that he is no longer alive and that the authorities are keeping silent about it. Read more

Forcibly deported Kurd from Denmark probably jailed and tortured

On Wednesday 22 September 2010, Asylret informed that an asylum seeker would be forcibly deported to Syria.

Adnan Ibrahim was deported to Syria after 18 months in Denmark where two-thirds of his family lives and where the rest had gone underground; for example a father who – rightly  – feared a forced deportation to Syria. Read more

Where is my brother Tahsein Mamo?

Aiysha Mamo has asked International Support Kurds in Syria Association – SKS for assistance to discover the circumstances and whereabouts of her brother Tahsein Mamo who has disappeared in the Syrian prison system. Aiysha who lives in Germany said, ‘I would do anything to find my brother. I think about him every day, I miss him so much’.

Tahsein’s cousin, Yaseen Mamo has also expressed his deep concern about what may have happened, and spoke of how their lives had been affected by his disappearance.

Tahsein, born 1980 in Afrin is married with one son. He lives in Aleppo.  He was arrested with four other people at the end of January 2007 during a raid by a patrol of military security officers, and they were taken to the branch of military security in Aleppo, and then on to the Investigation Branch of the military security in Damascus. Read more