Tal Mallouhi moved from Adra Prison to State Security Branch 258: source

 The destiny of youngest convicted prisoner, Tal Al Mallouhi, still vague after 4 years of detention and two months of court verdict to be freed.

A security source assured that Al Malouhi was taken as a ‘hostage’ by State Security Branch 258 in Damascus from Adra Prison months ago.

The administration of the ‘Damascus Central Prison’ demanded the officials of Branch 258 to give back Al Mallouhi, the source said. But no hope yet as Syria’s intelligence is most powerful body in Syria, source added.

Activists said, Assad regime will not freed most famous young activist in order not make her a national heroine as Syrian and International Human Rights Watchdogs have always demanded her freedom. 

Last October, first Criminal Court in Homs ordered to release immediately al-Mallouhi, 22-year-old, after 48 months of imprisonment, according to the Lawyer Omar Qandaqji.

Syrian authorities released 40 women detainees as part of a hostage exchange of two Turkish pilots and number of Shiite Lebanese pilgrims last October.

Al-Mallouhi was detained on December 27, 2009, after being summoned by State Security Branch 279 in Damascus for questioning about her blog entries. Two days after her detention, Syrian state security officials raided her family home and confiscated her computer, notebooks, and other personal documents and belongings.

Al-Mallouhi was held incommunicado at an undisclosed location without charge or access to her family for nine months, until late August 2010, when her detention was publicized. Al-Mallouhi’s family originally sought her release through diplomatic relations and negotiations and therefore did not want any publicity on the case. However, on September 2, 2010, her mother published an open letter to the Syrian president seeking information on her daughter’s welfare and calling for her immediate release. In the letter, her mother described the intense suffering felt by the entire family at her daughter’s detention without any confirmed cause. Her family was finally allowed to visit her for the first time at Doma Prison in Damascus on September 30, 2010, but has not been permitted to visit her since.

Tens of thousands of people are being held by the Syrian regime, many of them without trial, activists say. Rights groups say torture and ill-treatment are systematic in Syria's jails.