Assad security arrests two prominent activists near Damascus

Assad security arrested two young activists in Jaramana near Damascus

 Maram Dawood, member of the National Coordination Body and the Syrian Medical Committee, was detained by the Syrian authorities from the Jaramana checkpoint on Friday 13/09/2013 along with his friend Khaldoun Nithami - an IT university student, Syrian Watchdog said.

Maram is an Economy student born in the Salamiya city of Hama in 1989. Maram coordinated and participated in several relief campaigns for internally displaced Syrians, the Britain-based Human Rights Observatory said.

Dawood  participated and organized several workshops aimed at building a Syrian civil society. Maram is a youth activist and an anti-war campaigner of peace who took part in several campaigns demanding the release of prisoners, the kidnapped and the hostages of the ongoing conflict.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights condemns in a statement such violations against the Syrian youth and the peaceful activists and demands the immediate release of Maram Dawood, Khaldoum Nithami and all political detainees in the regime's prisons and detention centres. The SOHR also holds the Syrian authorities complete responsibility over the well-being and safety of Maram and Khaldoun.