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The duration of the detention could be anywhere from few days to 25 years, some will finish serving their sentence and will remain in detention, some detainees do not have a trial date set until now even though they have been detained for years, note that in some cases the prosecution usually is the Supreme State Security Court and even martial courts, and Exceptional courts, where mock trials are held, and not subject to legal actions or international standards.
Some citizens are detained on the background of "swearing and cursing," and these people do not belong to any political party, and do not engage in any activism, but they get arrested as a result of security reports that agents write against them, for mentioning certain situations or people in Syria and usually refer them to the Military Court or remain without trial. They are usually detained for a period ranging between three months and three years, and are often detained for periods of time in various detention centers.
For example: Kamal al-Labwani was arrested in September 2001 after attending a political seminar in the house of fellow activist and politician Riad Seif. Al-Labwani was taken to 'Adra prison and held initially incommunicado detention and then in solitary confinement. Subsequently he gained access to his lawyer and he was allowed family visits. On 28 August 2002 the Supreme State Security Court (SSSC) sentenced him to three years in prison on charges including "inciting armed revolt". After serving his sentence he was released in September 2004.
On his return to Syria, after a trip to the US, on 8 November 2005, Dr. al-Labwani was arrested at Damascus International Airport, since that time he has been imprisoned in Adra prison in Damascus.
On 10 May 2007, Dr. al-Labwani was sentenced by the criminal court in Damascus to 12 years in prison, with hard labor, on charges of "communicating with a foreign country and inciting it to initiate aggression against Syria.”
Since the entry of the Internet to Syria, and because of the tight control by the security forces, arrests began on the background of messaging exchange between network users, who share their articles or newspaper reports about the domestic situation in Syria, such as: What happened to Habib Saleh, who was arrested by Syrian security authorities on 29th of May 2005 from his office in Tartus, over articles published on a couple of sites (civilized dialogue) and (Transparent Middle East), and sentenced him in 2006 to three years, also 2006 saw the arrest of a member of the National Organization for Human Rights in Syria, a journalist and an independent author Mohammed Ghanem the owner of Souryoun website on the 31st of March, he was arrested from his home in Al-Raqqah to be sentenced on the 6th of June to one year in prison and then it was reduced to six months because of his writings and his positions on his website, which he called the Syrians, Ghanem won his freedom on the 1st of October 2006 after finishing his prison sentence.
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The duration of the detention could be anywhere from few days to 25 years, some will finish serving their sentence and will remain in detention, some detainees do not have a trial date set until now even though they have been detained for years, note that in some cases the prosecution usually is the Supreme State Security Court and even martial courts, and Exceptional courts, where mock trials are held, and not subject to legal actions or international standards.
Some citizens are detained on the background of "swearing and cursing," and these people do not belong to any political party, and do not engage in any activism, but they get arrested as a result of security reports that agents write against them, for mentioning certain situations or people in Syria and usually refer them to the Military Court or remain without trial. They are usually detained for a period ranging between three months and three years, and are often detained for periods of time in various detention centers.
For example: Kamal al-Labwani was arrested in September 2001 after attending a political seminar in the house of fellow activist and politician Riad Seif. Al-Labwani was taken to 'Adra prison and held initially incommunicado detention and then in solitary confinement. Subsequently he gained access to his lawyer and he was allowed family visits. On 28 August 2002 the Supreme State Security Court (SSSC) sentenced him to three years in prison on charges including "inciting armed revolt". After serving his sentence he was released in September 2004.
On his return to Syria, after a trip to the US, on 8 November 2005, Dr. al-Labwani was arrested at Damascus International Airport, since that time he has been imprisoned in Adra prison in Damascus.
On 10 May 2007, Dr. al-Labwani was sentenced by the criminal court in Damascus to 12 years in prison, with hard labor, on charges of "communicating with a foreign country and inciting it to initiate aggression against Syria.”
Since the entry of the Internet to Syria, and because of the tight control by the security forces, arrests began on the background of messaging exchange between network users, who share their articles or newspaper reports about the domestic situation in Syria, such as: What happened to Habib Saleh, who was arrested by Syrian security authorities on 29th of May 2005 from his office in Tartus, over articles published on a couple of sites (civilized dialogue) and (Transparent Middle East), and sentenced him in 2006 to three years, also 2006 saw the arrest of a member of the National Organization for Human Rights in Syria, a journalist and an independent author Mohammed Ghanem the owner of Souryoun website on the 31st of March, he was arrested from his home in Al-Raqqah to be sentenced on the 6th of June to one year in prison and then it was reduced to six months because of his writings and his positions on his website, which he called the Syrians, Ghanem won his freedom on the 1st of October 2006 after finishing his prison sentence.
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