Friday, September 05, 2014

"The principled Gulf Center for Human Rights"

From Basim: "Even with its co-director under arrest and her father on hunger strike, the Gulf Center for Human Rights does not forget about Syrian human rights activists held by the regime. So much for the Bahraini opposition being tools of Iran:

(Geneva, September 5, 2014)  –The Syrian government should immediately and unconditionally release the arbitrarily detained human rights defender Mazen Darwish and his colleagues Hani Al-Zitani and Hussein Ghareer, 79 organizations said today. The Syrian Anti-Terrorism Court is expected to issue its verdict on September 24, 2014 in their trial for “publicizing terrorist acts.”"