ALEPPO, West Kurdistan, — The Society for Threatened Peoples (STP) was informed on 25 January 2011 that the popular Kurdish folk singer Abdulrahman Omer, born 1951 and known as Bavê Selah, was arrested, in Aleppo.
He was born in the predominantly Kurdish area, Afrin in the far north-western part of Syria. At the time of his detention, the Kurdish artist was in bad health; however the Syrian security forces followed their instructions to arrest him without regard to this.
Abdulrahman Omer’s whereabouts are unknown.