Syria: Further information on fear of torture or other ill-treatment

Index Number: MDE 24/005/2009
Date Published: 23 February 2009
Categories: Syria

Kurdish political activists Sa’dun Sheikhu and Mohammad Sai’d ‘Omar are now being detained at ‘Adra prison in the capital, Damascus, where they are awaiting trial. They have been kept in incommunicado detention for almost four and a half months following their arrest by Military Intelligence officers on 25 October 2008.