Tuesday, August 15, 2006

Syrian Internet Dissident Jailed for Three Years

An AFP newswire article, via Yahoo! News, reports that:

A Syrian military court sentenced dissident writer Habib Saleh to three years in prison for having "published inaccurate information" on the Internet, a Syrian rights organization said.

"Habib Saleh was arrested in May 2005 after writing virulent articles on the Internet. He was sentenced today to three years in prison by a military tribunal in Homs," western Syria, the National Organisation for Human Rights in Syria said.

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