(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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