Syrian Human Rights Committee
MAD30/03/2010
On 16 March 2010, Kurdish students at Aleppo University stood in silence for five minutes on the anniversary of the chemical bombing of Halabja by the former regime in Iraq. The security forces arrived and scattered the group after taking some of the group members’ identity cards, so that the security committee of the Ba’ath Party at the University could investigate these people.
Three students were arrested, and their whereabouts remain unknown:
• Hussein Mohammad Ateh, born in 1985 in Qobani, studying French literature at the University of Aleppo;
• Abdul Aziz Mohammed Ateh, a third grade secondary school student was on a visit to his brother Hussein above.
• Furman Hussein was born in Qobani in 1990, a student in the Faculty of Education classroom teacher
MAD has also learned that on the eve of Newroz, Mostafa Osman Mohamed from the village of Qalhabin in the province of Aleppo, a student at the Institute of Medicine, was arrested and when he appeared in Court the decision was made to continue his detention.
MAD Committee condemns the arrests, which are incompatible with the most basic of human rights and international conventions, including the right of expression and the right to demonstrate and protest. We call upon the Syrian authorities to stop this, and to release the detainees and all prisoners of conscience and expression, to lift of the state of emergency in the country and to abolish special courts and martial law.
Syrian Human Rights Committee-MAD
