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Syrian Security Forces Clamp Down on Damascus Rights Demo


AFP/Yahoo) Syrian security forces stopped human rights activists from holding a protest in Damascus Thursday to protest against the continued detention of about 500 political prisoners. Nine demonstrators, most of them Kurds, were briefly questioned. On Tuesday, Syrian authorities released 112 political prisoners under a presidential amnesty. (
2004-12-10 00:00:00
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