Translation by Rana Abdul
(Zaman Al Wasl)- Syrians, refugees and activists, have rallied in Paris on Saturday in solidarity with Syrian detainees in regime security chambers.
Activist Mahmoud al-Shara told Zaman al-Wasl, the 'Detainees First' demonstration has been organized by the initiative “the survivors of detention in Syria”. It's not related to any political body, he added.
More activities and other sit-ins took place at the same time in other French and European cities.
The campaign will continue in the near future and expand to other European capitals and cities. The campaign received solidarity and from NGOs and European NGOs in addition to Syrian rebel forces,” al-Shara added.
The demonstrators carried a thousand photo from hundreds of thousands of detainees in Assad regime detentions and other organizations destroying Syria.
Actor and organizer of the demonstration Fares al-Hilou said in a statement for the initiative, “we are the Syrians who survived detention in accidentally.
We refuse making the refugees a cause and the detainees a file. Our aim is to make the detainees file an international opinion cause. We believe that resolving the Syrian issue will not happen before the detainees’ issue is resolved for the warlords, the armed organizations starting with Assad’s organization.”
Al-Hilou added, “we want the world to see that fearing detention is one of the first reasons for asylum seekers. We refuse they deface this reason under pretext of war. We appeal to the International Community for support and solidarity in the detainees issue in Syria. We believe there is no negotiations before detainees are free. We will work to expand this activity to address the civil European segments with all tools and ideas artistically, intellectually, and legally. Hence, “The Survivors from detention” will support the campaign,”detainees are first”.
The demonstration comes in conjunction with the European League Championship and that might help deliver the message of the detainees to a bigger segment in Europe.
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