20 September 1999

Alert

Journalist released


Incident details

Qaiss Darwish

journalist(s)

other


(RSF/IFEX) - RSF has learned that Qaiss Darwish was released on 29 August
1999 from Seydnaya prison, under the amnesty decreed by President El-Assad,
issued on 12 July for his fifth term as president of the Syrian Republic. A
journalist for the periodical "Al-Ka'ayda", Darwish had been jailed since
his arrest in August 1984, charged of belonging to the Communist Action
Party and sentenced to fifteen years in prison.





**Updates IFEX alert of 10 March 1999**






Source:

Reporters Without Borders
47, rue Vivienne
75002 Paris
France
rsf (@) rsf.org
Phone: +33 1 44 83 84 84
Fax: +33 1 45 23 11 51
 

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