If you are going to have an activist jailed, does he have to be tortured too?
10/08/2015 04:38 PM
PEN Pinter prizewinner was reportedly tortured during incarceration on “terrorism” charges
An award-winning Syrian human rights activist, Mazen Darwish, has been released from prison after over three years’ detention in Syria, AFPreported Monday.
“He has been freed ahead of a final verdict in his case on August 21,” his wife, Yara Bader, told the agency.
Darwish was arrested by members of the Air Force Intelligence on 16 February, 2012, at the Damascus office of the Syrian Center for Media and Freedom of Expression, an NGO he founded in 2004. Seven of his colleagues were arrested with him. A statement calling for his release the following week was signed by civil rights and press freedom organizations including Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, the Committee to Protect Journalists, Index on Censorship, and the Samir Kassir Foundation.
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Syrian activist Mazen Darwish released after three years in jail?
10/08/2015 04:38 PM
PEN Pinter prizewinner was reportedly tortured during incarceration on “terrorism” charges

An award-winning Syrian human rights activist, Mazen Darwish, has been released from prison after over three years’ detention in Syria, AFPreported Monday.
“He has been freed ahead of a final verdict in his case on August 21,” his wife, Yara Bader, told the agency.
Darwish was arrested by members of the Air Force Intelligence on 16 February, 2012, at the Damascus office of the Syrian Center for Media and Freedom of Expression, an NGO he founded in 2004. Seven of his colleagues were arrested with him. A statement calling for his release the following week was signed by civil rights and press freedom organizations including Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, the Committee to Protect Journalists, Index on Censorship, and the Samir Kassir Foundation.
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Syrian activist Mazen Darwish released after three years in jail?