Kurdish student arrested and excluded from University for internet activity

Bafel Ali Ahmed, born 1987 in Qamishli, in the Kurdish region of Syria was a student registered in the Faculty of Arts, at Damascus University.  He has been suspended from his course and evicted from his accommodation there.

Bafel Ali Ahmed was arrested on 5 April 2009 by the military security forces in Qamishli without a warrant, for activity in the media with particular reference to electronic media. He was later transferred to the Palestine Branch of Military Security in Damascus, and was released seven weeks later on 24 May 2009. Read more