{"id":638,"date":"2013-05-21T11:09:11","date_gmt":"2013-05-21T11:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/achrs.org\/english\/2013\/05\/21\/joint-statement-to-stop-the-trial-mazen-darwish-and-his-fellow-members-of-the-syrian-center-for-media-and-freedom-of-expression\/"},"modified":"2013-05-21T11:09:11","modified_gmt":"2013-05-21T11:09:11","slug":"joint-statement-to-stop-the-trial-mazen-darwish-and-his-fellow-members-of-the-syrian-center-for-media-and-freedom-of-expression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/achrs.org\/english\/2013\/05\/21\/joint-statement-to-stop-the-trial-mazen-darwish-and-his-fellow-members-of-the-syrian-center-for-media-and-freedom-of-expression\/","title":{"rendered":"Joint statement To stop the trial Mazen Darwish And his fellow members of the Syrian Center for Media and Freedom of Expression"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: justify;\" dir=\"LTR\"><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"line-height: 115%;\">Members of the Syrian Center for Media and Freedom of Expression are scheduled to appear before the anti-terrorism court in Damascus on May 19, 2013, the members are<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: justify;\" dir=\"LTR\"><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><span dir=\"RTL\"><\/span><span style=\"line-height: 115%;\" dir=\"RTL\"><span dir=\"RTL\"><\/span>\u2022 <\/span><span dir=\"LTR\"><\/span><span style=\"line-height: 115%;\"><span dir=\"LTR\"><\/span> <\/span><b><span style=\"line-height: 115%;\">Mr. Mazen Darwish, head of the center.<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: justify;\" dir=\"LTR\"><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><span dir=\"RTL\"><\/span><b><span style=\"line-height: 115%;\" dir=\"RTL\"><span dir=\"RTL\"><\/span>\u2022 <\/span><\/b><span dir=\"LTR\"><\/span><b><span style=\"line-height: 115%;\"><span dir=\"LTR\"><\/span> Activist blogger Hussein Greer &#8211; Hani Zettati.<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: justify;\" dir=\"LTR\"><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><span dir=\"RTL\"><\/span><b><span style=\"line-height: 115%;\" dir=\"RTL\"><span dir=\"RTL\"><\/span>\u2022 <\/span><\/b><span dir=\"LTR\"><\/span><b><span style=\"line-height: 115%;\"><span dir=\"LTR\"><\/span> Mansur Hamid &#8211; Abdul Rahman Hamada<\/span><\/b><span style=\"line-height: 115%;\"> &#8220;under parole since February 6, 2013<\/span><span dir=\"RTL\"><\/span><span style=\"line-height: 115%;\" dir=\"RTL\"><span dir=\"RTL\"><\/span>&#8220;<\/span><span dir=\"LTR\"><\/span><span style=\"line-height: 115%;\"><span dir=\"LTR\"><\/span>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: justify;\" dir=\"LTR\"><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"line-height: 115%;\">They may face charges of terrorism due to their peaceful activities, the indictment, released on February 27, of those five members of the Center charged them with &#8220;promoting terrorist acts&#8221;, under Article 8 of the Anti-Terrorism Act of 2012. It was also mentioned in the indictment that these accusations are attributed to Mr. Darwish as head of the Syrian Center, and the other four activists as workers at the center, which included the follow-up and monitoring of the news broadcast by the Syrian opposition on the Internet, publishing studies on the human rights and media situation in Syria, and documenting the names of detainees, disappeared, wanted, and dead, in addition to the charge of receiving money from a western governments. As stated in the indictment, the investigating judge in Damascus considered this work as part of an attempt to &#8220;destabilize the internal situation in Syria and provoke international organizations to condemn Syria in international forums<\/span><span dir=\"RTL\"><\/span><span style=\"line-height: 115%;\" dir=\"RTL\"><span dir=\"RTL\"><\/span>.&#8221;<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 115%;\"><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: justify;\" dir=\"LTR\"><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"line-height: 115%;\">It is noted that on 16 \\ 2 \\ 2012 Syrian security raided the Office of the <b>Syrian Center for Media and Freedom of Expression<\/b> in Seven Bahrat &#8211; 29 May Street &#8211; Damascus, and arrested <b>Mr. Mazen Darwish<\/b>, head of the center and all the workers of the center and its visitors<\/span><span dir=\"RTL\"><\/span><span style=\"line-height: 115%;\" dir=\"RTL\"><span dir=\"RTL\"><\/span>.<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 115%;\"><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: justify;\" dir=\"LTR\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">Mr. Mazen Darwish has been subjected to arbitrary arrest in 16 \\ 3 \\ 2011 for of his participation in a sit-in carried out by families of detainees in front of the Ministry of Interior to submit a letter to the Interior Minister, as a plea to release their sons, and he was released on the same day. On 23 \\ 3 \\ 2011 Darwish was arrested after being summoned for investigation for media releases about the arrests in Syria and the events of Daraa.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: justify;\" dir=\"LTR\"><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"line-height: 115%;\">Mr. Mazen Darwish, born in 1974, is a journalist, member of the International Federation of Journalists, and the founder and president of the Syrian Center for Media and Freedom of Expression. He is also vice president of the International Institute for Cooperation and Support in Brussels and a member of the International Bureau of the Organization of Reporters Without Borders, in addition to the center which is headed by Darwish, which is the only organization in Syria specialized in the follow-up of the media and the Internet. He is also an advisory member in United Nations Economic and Social Council<\/span><span dir=\"RTL\"><\/span><span style=\"line-height: 115%;\" dir=\"RTL\"><span dir=\"RTL\"><\/span>.<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 115%;\"><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: justify;\" dir=\"LTR\"><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"line-height: 115%;\">We, the organizations, bodies, and centers for the defense of human rights in Syria, express our strong condemnation and deep concern about the continuity of unfair trials of peaceful activists for peaceful democratic change in Syria and we call on the Syrian government to work for<\/span><span dir=\"RTL\"><\/span><span style=\"line-height: 115%;\" dir=\"RTL\"><span dir=\"RTL\"><\/span>:<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 115%;\"><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: justify;\" dir=\"LTR\"><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"line-height: 115%;\">1. Drop the charges against the activists mentioned above, and to all who participated in peaceful demonstrations in Syria, and to stop the ongoing trials against peaceful political activists and human rights defenders<\/span><span dir=\"RTL\"><\/span><span style=\"line-height: 115%;\" dir=\"RTL\"><span dir=\"RTL\"><\/span>.<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 115%;\"><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: justify;\" dir=\"LTR\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;\">2. If the charges are not dropped, they should guarantee the right of defendants to a fair trial before an independent and impartial court consistent with ratified Syrian obligations in particular Article 10 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights adopted by the United Nations in 1948, and Article (1, 14 and 5 , 14) of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights adopted by the United Nations in 1966, as well as ensure that the proceedings are in line with the standards and principles accredited to the United Nations bodies, including the basic principles on the Independence of the Judiciary issued in 1985, and the Guidelines on the Role of Prosecutors General issued in 1990.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: justify;\" dir=\"LTR\"><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"line-height: 115%;\">3. That the defendants enjoy their right to trial that meets the conditions of fair trials. Because the provisions of the articles of the Penal Code are vague and largely loose to allow the authorities to use it to crack down on peaceful dissidents and human rights activists. Moreover, there are serious concerns that the defendants have been and will be subjected to ill-treatment during their detention<\/span><span dir=\"RTL\"><\/span><span style=\"line-height: 115%;\" dir=\"RTL\"><span dir=\"RTL\"><\/span>.<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 115%;\"><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: justify;\" dir=\"LTR\"><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"line-height: 115%;\">4. Close the file of political detention and release of all political prisoners, prisoners of opinion and conscience, and all detained because of their participation in peaceful gatherings conducted in various Syrian cities, unless they are charged with a recognizably criminal offense and brought promptly to trial where there is fair trial standards<\/span><span dir=\"RTL\"><\/span><span style=\"line-height: 115%;\" dir=\"RTL\"><span dir=\"RTL\"><\/span>.<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 115%;\"><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: justify;\" dir=\"LTR\"><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"line-height: 115%;\">5. The Syrian government should respect all its obligations with regard to human rights as defined by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights adopted by the United Nations, as set out in international instruments ratified by Syria in particular the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, and as guaranteed by the Syrian Constitution; based on that they should respect the rights of citizens and protect them fully particularly with regard to the enjoyment of freedom of expression, freedom of association, and the right to peaceful assembly<\/span><span dir=\"RTL\"><\/span><span style=\"line-height: 115%;\" dir=\"RTL\"><span dir=\"RTL\"><\/span>.<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 115%;\"><\/span><span dir=\"RTL\"><\/span><span style=\"line-height: 115%;\" dir=\"RTL\"><span dir=\"RTL\"><\/span>&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed; text-align: justify;\" dir=\"LTR\"><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><b><span style=\"line-height: 115%;\">The name of human rights organizations signed<\/span><\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><span class=\"hps\">1.<\/span><span dir=\"LTR\"><span class=\"hps\">National Organization for Human<\/span><\/span> <span class=\"hps\">Rights in Syria<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><span class=\"hps\">2.<\/span><span dir=\"LTR\"><span class=\"hps\">Kurdish Committee <\/span><\/span><span class=\"hps\">for Human Rights <\/span><span class=\"hps\">in Syria (observer)<\/span><span class=\"hps\"> \/ Syria<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><span class=\"hps\">3.<\/span><span dir=\"LTR\"><span class=\"hps\">National Organization for Human <\/span><\/span><span class=\"hps\">Rights in Syria<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><span class=\"hps\">4.<\/span><span dir=\"LTR\"><span class=\"hps\">Defend <\/span><\/span><span class=\"hps\">for <\/span><span class=\"hps\">prisoners <\/span><span class=\"hps\">of <\/span><span class=\"hps\">conscience <\/span><span class=\"hps\">in <\/span><span class=\"hps\">Syria<\/span><span class=\"hps\"> <\/span><span class=\"hps\">\u2013 <\/span><span class=\"hps\">Rwankh<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><span class=\"hps\">5.<\/span><span dir=\"LTR\"><span class=\"hps\">Kurdish Organization for the <\/span><\/span><span class=\"hps\">Defense of Human Rights <\/span><span class=\"hps\">and Public Freedoms in <\/span><span class=\"hps\">Syria<\/span><span class=\"hps\"> <\/span><span class=\"hps\"><span dir=\"RTL\">) <\/span><\/span><span class=\"hps\">DAD<\/span><span class=\"hps\"><span dir=\"RTL\">( <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><span class=\"hps\">6.<\/span><span dir=\"LTR\"><span class=\"hps\">Human Rights Organization in Syria \u2013 MAF \/ Syria<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><span class=\"hps\">7.<\/span><span dir=\"LTR\"><span class=\"hps\">Syrian Kurdish <\/span><\/span><span class=\"hps\">Centre <\/span><span class=\"hps\">for <\/span><span class=\"hps\">Documentation \/ Syria<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><span class=\"hps\">8.<\/span><span dir=\"LTR\"><span class=\"hps\">Syrian Coalition<\/span><\/span><span class=\"shorttext\"> <\/span><span class=\"hps\">Against the Death Penalty (SCODP) \/ Syria<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><span class=\"hps\">9.<\/span><span dir=\"LTR\"><span class=\"hps\">Syrian <\/span><\/span><span class=\"hps\">platform <\/span><span class=\"hps\">for NGOs (SPNGO ) \/ Syria<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><span class=\"hps\">10.<\/span><span dir=\"LTR\"><span class=\"hps\">Syrian <\/span><\/span><span class=\"hps\">Jurists <\/span><span class=\"hps\">Association <\/span><span class=\"hps\">for <\/span><span class=\"hps\">transitional <\/span><span class=\"hps\">justice <\/span><span class=\"hps\">and <\/span><span class=\"hps\">the <\/span><span class=\"hps\">rule <\/span><span class=\"hps\">of <\/span><span class=\"hps\">law\/ Syria<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><span class=\"hps\">11.<\/span><span dir=\"LTR\"><span class=\"hps\">Syrian<\/span><span class=\"hps\"> Center <\/span><\/span><span class=\"hps\">for Transitional Justice <\/span><span class=\"hps\">and <\/span><span class=\"hps\">enabled <\/span><span class=\"hps\">democracy \/ Syria<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><span class=\"hps\">12.<\/span><span dir=\"LTR\"><span class=\"hps\">Syrian<\/span><span class=\"hps\"> Center <\/span><\/span><span class=\"hps\">for Rehabilitation of Victims <\/span><span class=\"hps\">of Violence and Torture \/ Syria<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><span class=\"hps\">13.<\/span><span dir=\"LTR\"><span class=\"hps\">National<\/span><span class=\"hps\"> Center <\/span><\/span><span class=\"hps\">for the Study of Tolerance and Anti-Violence in Syria<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><span class=\"hps\">14.<\/span><span dir=\"LTR\"><span class=\"hps\">Ebla<\/span><span class=\"hps\"> Center for the Study of transitional justice and democracy in Syria<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><span class=\"hps\">15.<\/span><span dir=\"LTR\"><span class=\"hps\">Syrian<\/span><span class=\"hps\"> Center<\/span><span class=\"hps\"> for Civil Society and Human Rights Studies<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><span class=\"hps\">16.<\/span><span dir=\"LTR\">National Rally <span class=\"hps\">for<\/span> <span class=\"hps\">women<\/span>&#8216;s <span class=\"hps\">and<\/span> <span class=\"hps\">children<\/span>&#8216;s <span class=\"hps\">rights<\/span> <span class=\"hps\">\/ Syria<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><span class=\"hps\">17.<\/span><span dir=\"LTR\"><span class=\"hps\">Syrian Association for the freedom and fairness<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><span class=\"hps\">18.<\/span><span dir=\"LTR\"><span class=\"hps\">Syrian<\/span><span class=\"hps\"> Center<\/span><span class=\"hps\"> for <\/span><\/span><span class=\"hps\">Human Rights Education<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><span class=\"hps\">19.<\/span><span dir=\"LTR\"><span class=\"shorttext\">Syrian<\/span><span class=\"shorttext\"> Center<\/span><span class=\"shorttext\"> <\/span><\/span><span class=\"hps\">for Human Rights<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><span class=\"hps\">20.<\/span><span dir=\"LTR\">Syrian Center <span class=\"hps\">for Democracy and Human<\/span> <span class=\"hps\">Development<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><span class=\"hps\">21.<\/span><span dir=\"LTR\"><span class=\"shorttext\">Republic<\/span><span class=\"shorttext\"> <\/span><span class=\"hps\">Center<\/span><\/span><span class=\"shorttext\"> <\/span><span class=\"hps\">for<\/span><span class=\"shorttext\"> <\/span><span class=\"hps\">Studies<\/span><span class=\"shorttext\"> <\/span><span class=\"hps\">and Human Rights<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><span class=\"hps\">22.<\/span><span dir=\"LTR\"><span class=\"hps\">Committees for the Defense <\/span><\/span><span class=\"hps\">of Democratic Liberties and <\/span><span class=\"hps\">Human Rights in Syria<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><span class=\"hps\">23.<\/span><span dir=\"LTR\"><span class=\"hps\">National Coordination <\/span><\/span><span class=\"hps\">for the Defense of <\/span><span class=\"hps\">missing in Syria<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify; direction: ltr; unicode-bidi: embed;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"line-height: 115%;\">Damascus<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 115%;\"> 19 \\ 5 \\ 2013<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Members of the Syrian Center for Media and Freedom of Expression are scheduled to appear before the anti-terrorism court in Damascus on 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