The youngest known convicted prisoner Tal al-Mallouhi, 23-year-old, sent back to Adra central Prison after months of ‘detention’ by state intelligence and failed efforts to get her released since she was a part of a hostage exchange last October 2013, well-informed source told Zaman Alwasl.
Syrian First Criminal Court in Homs ordered on October 23 2013, judicial decision to release immediately al-Mallouhi after 45 months of imprisonment, according to Lawyer Omar Qandaqji.
But the court adjudication was worthless as the young blogger had been moved to the state intelligence headquarters in Damascus to be interrogated in what Syrian activists called the farewell visit. But she ‘held captive’ and her release case has been subjected to security blackout since then.
On October 2013, Bashar al-Assad’s authorities released about 50 women detainees as part of a hostage exchange of nine Lebanese Shiite pilgrims held for 17 months by a rebel group in northern Syria were exchanged for two Turkish pilots abducted in Lebanon in August 2013.
Tal 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.
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.
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