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The Society for Threatened Peoples (GfbV) wrote on Friday to the French Foreign Minister, Bernard Kouchner, with an urgent plea to take action in Syria for the Kurdish human rights worker, Maschal Tamo, who has disappeared. The father of six children, who regularly informs the GfbV on the human rights situation in Syria, was arrested a week ago in the early hours of Friday morning (15.08.08) by Syrian security forces and has since disappeared. His relatives have been refused all information as to his whereabouts. Kouchner is expected in Damascus on Sunday. France has at present the chair at the EU Council.
The GfbV is extremely worried about its correspondent because the Syrian authorities have since denied his arrest. „We fear that Maschal Tamo will share the fate of the Syrian Kurdish minister of religion, Maschuk Al Khznawi, who was found dead after he had been abducted some weeks before”, says the letter of the GfbV General Secretary, Tilman Zülch, to Kouchner. The Syrian government stated at that time that Khznawi had been abducted by criminals and murdered. His corpse showed however clear signs of torture.
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