Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2000 16:43:37 -0600
From: webmaster_english@shrc.org
Message-Id: <200011192243.QAA24879@ives.siteprotect.com>
To: zdwf-@t-online.de
Subject: Political Amnesty in Syria - 16 November 2000 

SHRC welcomes the releasing of some 600 political detainees, and urges president Asad to release all other political prisoners and abolish the state of emergency imposed on Syria ... 
http://www.shrc.org/english/press_releases/2000/16092000/16092000.htm

The Details:
In his comment on president Bashar al-Asad’s amnesty for some 600 political detainees, an official SHRC spokesman said today: 

“ Syrian Human Rights Committee welcomed this morning the news of releasing some 600 political detainees, regarding it the major step taken by president Bashar al-Asad in the field of liberties and human rights since he assumed power last July”.

“In this occasion SHRC would like to remind president Asad with the urgency to release all other political prisoners, who are still in thousands in Syrian prisons; to issue a general amnesty for all forcibly exiled citizens as a consequence to laws of emergency – by which Syria has been ruled since 1963- and other exceptional laws which restrict liberties. These laws include ruthless sentences against mere affiliation or membership of political opposition”. 

“The Syrian Human Rights Committee calls on President Asad to work hard to abolish the state of emergency imposed on Syria for about four decades now, in addition to the other exceptional laws which restrict the freedom of Syrian citizens”.

“However, the first and foremost demand requested from president Bashar al-Asad is to limit the wide authorities granted to security and intelligence apparatuses, which misused their authorities by detaining and exiling thousands of Syrian citizens without any commitment to laws in force that ensure personal freedom, freedom of expression, peaceful opposition and that no one is liable to the others misdeeds". 

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