Syrian intelligence authorities released four
Syrian human rights activists, a Syrian Observatory for Human Rights
said Tuesday. The rights group said Syrian authorities on
Monday released Kays Ahmad Ali, arrested on April 2, 2008; and Hamman
Haddad, Barhouz Sharif Youssef, and Hussein Mulla Ahmad, arrested on
May 5, 2008. The Observatory said it considered the
detentions an obvious violation of personal freedoms guaranteed by the
Syrian constitution and international charters ratified by Syria.
The rights group demanded that the Syrian authorities stop arbitrary
detention and immediately release Professor Aref Dalilah and the other
prisoners of conscience in the Syrian jails. Dalilah, a
former head of economics at Syrian University, was arrested in 2001 for
'attempting to change the constitution by illegal means.'
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