Stop the Political Arrests

The Arab authorities continue to arrest the opinion and political positions leaders, just because their perspectives 
oppose the official ones.

In Tunisia, the authorities arrested Jalal El-Zaghlami and his brother Najib because of their opposition for the regime 
and their calls for the freedom of the people in deciding their country’s destiny.

And in Syria, The Human Rights Organization declared on 2/10/2004 that the authorities detained on 30/9/2004 
the author and researcher Nabil Fayad who is the speaker of the Liberal Group.

While in Bahrain, Mr. Abdel Hadi Al-Khawajah, a human rights activist and the director of the Bahraini Center for 
Human Rights, was arrested on 25/9/2004 after calling upon for fighting poverty in Bahrain during a colloquium on 
“The Economic Rights” on 23/9/2004.

This arrest's campaign continues in KSA and other Arab countries, and what is going on in Bahrain, Syria and 
Tunisia is a small picture of what goes on in all Arab countries where freedom is suppressed and the human rights 
activists and civil society bodies are arrested.

Khiam Rehabilitation Center for Victims of Torture highly condemns such practices that contradicts with the 
International Declaration of Human Rights and the Convention Against Torture, and thus urges the Arab governments to:

§        Stop the political arrests and respect the International Laws that secure the democratic rights;

§        Release all the detainees;

§        And stop the harassments against the civil society organizations.

                                                                           07/10/2004