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EOHR calls for the immediate release of Syrian activist Mohamed Raadoun
24/5/2005
The Egyptian Organization for Human Rights (EOHR) is concerned about the detention of lawyer Mohamed Raadoun, head of the Arab Organization for Human Rights in Syria, and calls on the Syrian authorities to release him immediately.
EOHR expresses its solidarity with Syrian and Arab civil society organisations and human rights groups in their campaign for Raadoun's release, calling on all regional and international rights groups to join this campaign in order to form a pressure group which will lobby the Syrian government to release Raadun and all Syrian prisoners of conscience such as Ali al Abdallah, al Sheikh al Khaznawy and Nizar Rostnawy, stop its pursuit and detention of human rights defenders such as Aktham Naissa, head of the Committees for the Defence of Democratic Freedoms and Human Rights in Syria, stop human rights violations, guarantee citizens' fundamental freedoms, end political detention and put an end to the state of emergency.
The state of emergency has been in force since the 1960s and conflicts with steps towards reform which have taken place in some countries in the region.
A squad from the Syrian political security forces stormed Raadoun's office in Lattakia on Sunday the 22nd May 2005. He is still in detention.
Raadoun's detention occurred after the Arab Organization for Human Rights in Syria issued a press statement stating that the Syrian authorities had detained six people on charges of belonging to the banned Muslim Brotherhood. It alleged that one of the six had been tortured.
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