According to Kurdish Organization for Defending Human Rights and Public Freedoms in Syria – DAD, the Human Rights Organization in Syria – MAF  and other organisations report that the Norwegian authorities have arrested the Kurdish citizen, Abdulkarim Hossain born 1959, from Aleppo, and will send him back to Syria , 19th August 2010 at 4pm.

Damascus: Interior Ministry seeks 287 residents of al-Hasakah province living abroad for ‘crimes against the state' 

 KURDWATCH, August 16, 2010—As previously reported, at the beginning of May lists with the names of people living abroad were forwarded to the civil register offices in al-Hasakah province with the stipulation that those listed could only be issued identification papers and other documents if they reported to the State Security Service. 

Arrest of 17 year old Kurdish teenager in al-Raqqa, Syria

Syrian Committee for Human Rights - MAD and Kurdish Organization for Defending Human Rights and Public Freedoms in Syria - DAD report that the house of Ahmed Ali ‘Beghdek', a Kurdish residents of al-Raqqa, was raided on 10 August 2010 by an armed military security patrol, and his young son Marwan Ahmed Ali, aged 17, was arrested. He was taken to an unknown destination and his whereabouts are still unknown.

Damascus: Interior Ministry seeks 287 residents of al-Hasakah province living abroad for ‘crimes against the state' 

 KURDWATCH, August 16, 2010—As previously reported, at the beginning of May lists with the names of people living abroad were forwarded to the civil register offices in al-Hasakah province with the stipulation that those listed could only be issued identification papers and other documents if they reported to the State Security Service. 

Where is my brother Tahseen Mammo?

 Aiysha Mammo has asked International Support Kurds in Syria Association – SKS for assistance to discover the circumstances and whereabouts of her brother Tahseen Mammo who has disappeared in the Syrian prison system.

 On 1 August 2010, the Political Committee of the Kurdish Azadi Party in Syria reported that the administrative authorities in Damascus Central Prison (Adra) continue to ill-treat political prisoners, and that Saadoun Mahmud Shekho has been thrown into solitary confinement.

URGENT ACTION: SYRIAN KURD TORTURED IN CUSTODY

‘Abdelbaqi Khalaf is being tortured or otherwise ill-treated, according to reliable sources. Every few weeks, they say, he is taken from Damascus Central prison in ‘Adra, northern Damascus, to a branch of State Security, where officers are trying to force him to “confess” to a crime he maintains he did not commit.

According to Syrian Human Rights Committee – MAD, during the first ten days of July 2010 the Syrian authorities through intelligence security forces arrested six Kurdish people in al-Raqqa city: Ibrahim.

Amnesty International reports that Kurdish human rights activist Abdul-Hafiz Abdul al-Rahman is now allowed family visits at Aleppo Central Prison, where he now appears to be receiving adequate medical...

Jiyan Fattah, aged 24, married to Abdul Rahman Bashir Ibrahim is the mother of two young children. Her home was raided by Syrian intelligence security on 25 November 2009. She has been arrested because... 

Syrian Human Rights Committee – MAD reports that on 22 July 2010, Manal Ibrahim and Rojhat Mustafa were transferred to the court of the military judge in Aleppo, following their arrest on 15 October...