Thursday, April 21, 2011

Arrest of the Syrian opponent Mahmoud Issa

The Syrian opponent Mahmoud Issa were arrested in Homs in central Syria, hours after announcing the lifting of emergency rule in the country, said, Wednesday, April 20, the chairman of the Observatory Syrian human rights, Rami Abdel Rahman. "A patrol service security policy adopted Tuesday night in Homs opponent Mahmoud Issa after granting an interview to Al-Jazeera television," said Mr.

Abdel-Rahman. In his interview with Al-Jazeera, the opponent made particular reference to the death of the Syrian general Abdo Al-Khodr Tellaoui in the region of Homs. He said he knew who had murdered and asked the authorities to investigate this case and arrest the criminals, according to Abdel-Rahman.

Mahmoud Issa is a former political prisoner. He was imprisoned from 1992 to 2000 for his membership in the Workers' Party (communist) and from 2006 to 2009 for having signed a statement Damascus-Beirut calling for a sovereign and independent Lebanon. The official SANA news agency and newspapers close to the Syrian authorities have assured that "armed criminal groups blocking roads and spreading fear surprised General Abdo Al-Khodr Tellaoui, his two children and her nephew (...) who were killed in cold blood "in Homs.

Since the beginning of the protest movement in Syria on March 15, the plan has "armed criminal gangs" to be the cause. On Monday, the Interior Ministry has promised to put down a "rebellion armed Salafist groups," when the protests grew louder, especially in Homs where four people were shot dead after occupying the central place of the city by nearly twenty thousand demonstrators.

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