Reposted from National Organization for Human Rights


The Syrian blogger Tarek Biassi is still kept in detention by the Syrian authorities who arrested him on 7/7/2007 after one of the security agencies in Tartus summoned him and hasn’t been released yet.

It is believed that the reason for his detention was surfing into some blocked opposition wesites, in addition to his blogging activism.

Mr.Tarek Biassi was born in 1984, his parents are Fatima and Omar, and used to live in Banias, Tartus which is on the Syrian coast. Tarek is the owner of a computer store in Banias.

He is the son of Dr. Omar Biassi, a previous political prisoner.

The National Organization For Human Rights in Syria expresses its concern about still arresting unfairly Mr. Biassi, and it considers this kind of behavior by the security agencies as a sign of stepping up pressure on the public activists in Syria, which is a violation of the basic freedoms guaranteed by the Syrian constitution .This is due to the state of emergency and martial law declared in this country. Besides, these measures contradict the Syrian obligations towards International Human Rights Declaration.

The NOHR calls for the immediate release of Tarek Biassi, and all political prisoners and prisoners of conscience by the Syrian authorities, and calls for ending the continuous arbitrary arrests.

National Organization for Human Rights 18-1-2008