Haytham Manna, the head of overseas
department in the National Coordination Committee for Democratic Change (NCC),
denied meeting Rifaat al-Assad in Geneva on Wednesday. He has expressed his
surprise of that rumors, as he is a human right activist, and a member of Arab
Commission for Human Rights (ACHR), as it is impossible to meet with a war
criminal who killed Syrian people.
“I am one of people who started the
criminal case against Rifaat al-Assad” he added.
“I am still a member in Arab Commission
for Human Rights (ACHR) and not the commission to protect dictators” he said to
Zaman Alwasl. He added that he would confront anyone to confirmed or bring
evidence that he met with Rifaat, moreover, he confront anyone to prove his
meeting with any member of al-Assad family.
Manna expressed his sorrow for those
rumours and he considers them as a defaming campaign against him.
“Assad deprived me from Syrian nationality
for 17 years, isn’t it enough evidence” he replied to an accusation that he is part
of Syrian Regime.
He said that he would meet with mikhail
bogdanov, the Russian Deputy Minister of Foreign Affair in, in Geneva
separately and he does not have any communication with Rifaat or Qadri Jameel
or any person from Syrian regime, as their presence in Geneva does not mean he
would meet them.
Manna considered the national coalition
and its practices responsible for disagreement and discrepancy between
different parties of the opposition. He explained that opposition needs to be
one block against the regime, which would help to defeat it.
Haytham Manna is a Syrian writer and a
human rights activist who helped in establishing the Arab Commission for Human
Rights (ACHR) and became the spokesperson
of it.
In 2011 during the early stages of the Syrian
revolution, he resigned as spokesperson of the ACHR and helped in creating the
National Coordination Committee for Democratic Change (NCC), one of the two
main opposition groups in Syria.
Read the original
article; Translation by Yusra
Ahmed
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