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		<title>Kurdish women in detention in Syria</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jun 2010 22:08:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The fascist attitude of the Syrian Government towards Kurds has not stopped since the shootings during Newroz at al-Raqqa in March 2010. There are raids in people’s homes in the early hours of the morning that sow the seeds of fear and terror, and the campaign of arbitrary arrests without explanation has been intensified. Kurdish [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kurds under pressure from increase in arrests in Kobani, Syria</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jun 2010 16:45:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The fate of the Kurdish citizen Mustafa Mohammad Ali Khalaf, born 1968 in Kobani has been unknown since his arrest on 3 May 2010 by the Political Security branch in Kobani, during a raid on his house in the middle of the night. The security patrol searched his home and interfered with his personal property, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spanish campaign raises awareness of Kurdish political prisoners in Syria</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jun 2010 23:19:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In late January of this year a letter addressed to the President of the Government of Spain, José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, was registered at the Moncloa Palace, the official seat of the Ministry of the Presidency. The letter outlined the plight of Kurdish political prisoners in Syria and asked for Spain’s assistance. …we respectfully request [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Unknown fate of dozens of detainees from the Kobani area</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jun 2010 23:04:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many Kurdish citizens living in Kobani and the nearby villages have disappeared since their arrests this year. Security agents make arrests but do not disclose their whereabouts. Aziz Burkel Khalil, born 1962 in Kobani was arrested by the criminal security service on 14 February 2010. He has heart disease. On the same day, Bozan Abdelkader [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Arrest of  Mohamed Abdi Saadoun, member of the Political Committee of the Kurdish Azadi Party in Syria</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jun 2010 22:35:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mohamed Abdi Saadoun, member of the Political Committee of the Kurdish Azadi Party in Syria, was called through the Education Department to go for questioning by the State Security department in Qamishli on Thursday, 20 May 2010. He was born in 1960, and is a teacher in Deyrik. He is married with seven children. His [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Home of Kurdish citizens raided in al-Raqqa</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jun 2010 22:08:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[An armed security patrol raided the home of Mohammed Mesto in al-Raqqa on Tuesday 18 May 2010.  They searched his home but he was not there and so he avoided being arrested.  He is now in hiding, in fear of being arbitrarily detention as many others have been since the shooting at al-Raqqa during the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Arbitrary arrests among Kurdish college students in Syria</title>
		<link>http://supportkurds.org/news/arbitrary-arrests-among-kurdish-college-students-in-syria/</link>
		<comments>http://supportkurds.org/news/arbitrary-arrests-among-kurdish-college-students-in-syria/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 31 May 2010 17:15:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kurdish Organization for Defending Human Rights and Public Freedoms in Syria – DAD, and Human Rights Organization in Syria – MAF report that a security services patrol arrested 2nd year law student  Bhor Saleh Ahmed and two of his fellow students on 18 May 2010, after encircling their rented accommodation. The reason for their arrest [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kurdish media student arrested in Syria</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 May 2010 16:44:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kurdish Organization for Defending Human Rights and Public Freedoms in Syria – DAD, and Human Rights Organization in Syria – MAF note with deep concern that Omar Osman Aleko, a 4th year media student was arrested on the outskirts of Damascus in al-Assad villages, by a political security patrol on 8 March 2010.  His home [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Continued arrests of Kurdish college students in Syria</title>
		<link>http://supportkurds.org/news/continued-arrests-of-kurdish-college-students-in-syria/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 May 2010 15:44:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It has been reported by Kurdish Organization for Defending Human Rights and Public Freedoms in Syria – DAD, and Human Rights Organization in Syria – MAF, that Hussein Muslim Jarrad has been detained by a security service, however there is no information available about the reason for his arrest. He is a year 2 civil [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kurdish man and son arrested by security patrol in al-Raqqa, Syria</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 May 2010 15:17:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Haji Hushek was arrested when an armed security patrol raided his home in the Mill area of al-Raqqa on Sunday 9 May 2010. The patrol surrounded his home and cordoned it off before it was stormed by heavily armed officers, who raided his belongings without a warrant to either enter or search the property. Haji [...]]]></description>
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