SYRIA, — Kurdish writer and researcher Hawas Mahmoud was detained by a patrol of the Syrian political security in the province of Hassaka on 12 January 2011, DAD reported.
He detained arbitrarily without a warrant issued by the competent judicial authorities, and in front of his children, he was taken to an unknown destination, and there has been no news of his whereabouts or the reason for his arrest. He has rheumatism and other health problems.
Kurdish Organization for Defending Human Rights and Public Freedoms in Syria – DAD condemned and strongly denounced the detention of Hawas Mahmoud, and expresses deep concern about his fate. They call on security services to stop these arbitrary arrests that take place outside the law, and which constitute a flagrant violation of fundamental rights and freedoms guaranteed by the Syrian Constitution of 1973 and pursuant to the State of Emergency and martial law that was declared in the country on 8 March 1963.