Twenty-six Kurdish demonstrators arrested in Syria during ten minute silent protest about human rights abuses.

 Information from MAF - Human Rights Organisation in Syria and Foad Aleko- Secretary of Kurdish Yekiti Party in Syria- announced today, 28.2.2009 that at 11am, Kurds came out onto the streets of al-Jazeera in the Kurdish region of Syria to hold a silent ten minute demonstration in the street, to protest about the legislation Decree 49 that further removes their basic human rights. 

Decree 49 prevents Kurds from buying, selling, renting and building property and is having a profound effect on their community. It is seen as another weapon of the Syrian authorities in their attempts to ethnically cleanse Kurds from the country. 

Intelligence security forces swooped on the demonstrators and arbitrarily arrested twenty-six people:

·        Mr. Adnan Suleman - solicitor and President of the MAF Trustees Assembly

·        Mr. Mahmud Omar – solicitor and member of MAF Trustees Assembly, 

·        Mr. Akram Suleman -  member of MAF Trustees Assembly

·        Mr. Suleman Mohammed Ismail – member of Governing Assembly in Kurdish Human Rights Committee al-Rasd

·        Mr. Masoud Kaso – solicitor and member of Governing Assembly in Kurdish Human Rights Committee al-Rasd

·        Dr. Abdulmajid Mahmoud Sabri – member of the Political Bureau of Democratic Kurdish Party Syria

·        Mr. Suleman Majid Auso – member of Political Committee – Kurdish Yekiti Party in Syria

·        Mr. Baafel Ali Ahmed

·        Mr Mohammed Esa Ismael

·        Dr. Fowaz Hanifa

·        Dr. Ibrahim Hussein Abbas

·        Mr. Baha al-Adin Faatami  - solicitor

·        Mr. Ali Ibrahim

·        Mr. Omar Ismael

·        Mr Mohammed Esa

·        Mr.Hussein Ismael

·        Mr. Mohammed Esa Hajali al-Ahmad

·        Mr. Hussein Ibrahim Mohammed

·        Mr. Allah al-Adin Hamami Ahmad

·        Mr.Nosradin Ahmee

·        Mr. Fathala Ahmed Mohammed

·        Dr. Abdusalaam Esa Osman

·        Mr. Osman Suleman Ali

·        Mr. Khifhosh Esa

·        Dr. Abdusalaam al-Hadi

·        Mr. Esa Haji Ali – solicitor

The Kurdish Yekiti Party in Syria asks the Governments in European countries to recognise that Kurds in Syria are denied their basic rights. It is not enough to merely mention the human rights abuses in discussions with Syria because that changes nothing. We request that you require the Syrian Government to demonstrate real change before further opening the doors of Europe. 

Committee of Kurdish Yekiti Party in Syria – UK branch                  

Yekiti.party_uk@yahoo.co.uk

28.2.2009