Syria: Fear of torture/incommunicado detention/prisoners of conscience

Syria: Fear of torture/incommunicado detention/prisoners of conscience

Index Number: MDE 24/056/2005
Date Published: 3 August 2005
Categories: Syria, Middle East And North Africa, Middle East And North Africa

The security forces have arrested the two leading members of a newly-established support group for the families of prisoners of conscience. The two men are held incommunicado, which puts them at grave risk of torture. Amnesty International considers them to be prisoners of conscience, arrested solely for exercising their right to freedom of expression.