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Lawyer Abdullah al-Khalil, two years behind bars

(Writing by Faris Al Rifai; Translation by Yusra Ahmed)

More than 28 months passed since Abdullah al-Khalil, the lawyer and human rights advocate, had been arrested by the Syrian regime security in May 2013.

Reports confirmed that al-Khalil was tortured and detained in singular cell, then he was moved to unknown destination and till now no one knows anything about him and conditions of his detention according to activists.

The activist was first time arrested on May 1, 2011 after his appearance on Al-Jazeera TV channel, then was released on July 29, 2011, to get arrested again during the sit-in at the council of Lawyers on August 22, 2012. 

He was arrested for the third time 15-December-2011 with his son Mohammed, who was released the next day but the lawyer was kept till 26-December-2011.

The regime forces demolished house December 18, 2011 and threatened him, then they destroyed his farm and uprooted fruit trees, activists reported.

Activist Izzo Falatani reported to Zaman al-Wasl that al-Khalil was arrested for the last time with his 16-year-old son because of his participation in a peaceful demonstration in Raqqa to support the besieged Homs and other cities. 

Falatani pointed out that Abdullah al-Khalil was one of the founders of the Revolutionary local council of the city of Raqqa and co-founder of the Arab Organization for Human Rights the branch of Syria with Mahmoud Marei.

According to Falatani, before the revolution al-Khalil was a member of the Arab Socialist Democratic Union Party and a member of the central committee and a member of the Riqqa branch of the National Democratic gathering before dispute with the leadership of the Party and denouncing it preferring to work in the field of human rights and the Revolution.

The Syrian Committee for Human Rights in Syria had detailed al-Khalil abduction, as when he came out of the headquarters of the local council of the Raqqa city driving his car to home with other three people. At about 12:45 pm, they were intercepted by a black car without plates in front of the immigration and passports in Raqqa and went in front of them, then When they arrived in front of the military court where they stopped the car and several people got out of it and asked for ID cards for each one in al-Khalil’s car threatening them with firearms and then abducted them.

Al-Khalil was born in 1961, he has worked as a Lawyer since 1986, who was the head of the local council of the province of Raqqa, and a member of the National coalition of opposition forces.

Zaman Al Wasl
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