Syria: Internet-user Abdel Rahman Shaguri released from prison
Via Reporters sans Frontières.
Reporters Without Borders noted the release from jail of Internet-user Abdel Rahman Shaguri on 31 August 2005 one week after completing his sentence for “publishing lies” but condemned his conviction as “utterly unjustified”.
"This man spent more than two and a half years in prison and was tortured just for sending news by email,” the worldwide press freedom organisation said.
"We also want to use this occasion to repeat our call for the release of cyberdissident Massud Hamid, imprisoned in Syria since July 2003", it added.
Intelligence officials arrested Shaguri on 23 February 2003, for emailing a newsletter taken from the website thisissyria.net, which is banned in Syria. The supreme state security court sentenced him on 20 June 2004 to two and a half years in prison. The charge against him specified that the articles he sent had “harmed the image and security of Syria”.
Shaguri served his entire sentence at the Saidnaya military prison where he was reportedly tortured by members of the military secret services.
posted by Fergie @ 9/14/2005 08:59:00 AM
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