Kamal Sheikho Released

Mr. Kamal Sheikho was released from prison on Saturday 24/2/2007. He was arrested on Saturday morning 17/2/2007 and was driven to one of the branches of the General Intelligence Directorate in Damascus.

Mr. Sheikho was born in 1978, and is a university student in the department of sociology. He lives in al-Hasakah province and is an active member of the ’Committees for Defence of Democratic Freedoms and Human Rights in Syria’.

The Syrian Human Rights Committee calls upon the Syrian authorities to terminate all forms of arbitrary arrests, to release all political detainees and prisoners of opinion and conscience, and to stop all sorts of harassments against human rights activists.

Syrian Human Rights Committee