URGENT APPEAL to the Norwegian Government to stop the deportation of Kurdish activist Abdulkarim Hossain to Syria

According to Kurdish Organization for Defending Human Rights and Public Freedoms in Syria – DAD, the Human Rights Organization in Syria – MAF  and other organisations report that the Norwegian authorities have arrested the Kurdish citizen, Abdulkarim Hossain born 1959, from Aleppo, and will send him back to Syria tomorrow, 19th August 2010 at 4pm.

The Kurdish activist, who also is active in SOS Racism [ http://sos-rasisme.no/sentralt/view/13940], was given his final refusal of permission to remain in Norway, despite the extremely high risk that he will be arrested and tortured on return to Syria. He applied in Norway for asylum in 2006. Abdulkarim Hossain will be in danger of losing his life in Syria. The Syrian authorities know that he is a human rights activist and Vice Chairperson of the Association of Syrian Kurds in Norway. Read more