Mahmoud Khalaf al-Nasir was arrested in October 2008. The minibus in which he works was also seized by the State Security Intelligence, and he was immediately driven to Damascus. | 08 Jun 09 

Sheikh Jihad Shaheen was arrested on 5/9/2008 due to his visit to his daughter in Amman, then his son was taken hostage also. | 05 Jun 09 

The teacher Akram Mustafa Alwani was arrested from the place of his work in Al-Raqqah Schools Health Department in front of employees and clients. | 05 Jun 09 

A source from the family of the university student Reem Mohammed Nakhla (28 years) has reported that on 2/4/2009 she suddenly disappeared in Damascus | 26 May 09 

The Syrian Authorities released the reformist writer and civil society activist Michel Kilo on (19/5/2009), after 3 years of repressive detainment and a unfair sentence | 24 May 09 

Taher Mohammed Abdulkader (43 years) has been released following two months of detainment for unknown reasons | 13 May 09 

The Criminal Court in Damascus sentenced the activist in current affairs and Secretary General of the Future Kurdish Movement, Mash’al Al Tamo, to three years and a half in prison | 12 May 09 

Dr. Sufyan Bakkour was released on Monday 4/5/2009, following his detention of approximately two years and three months as a hostage to his father. | 05 May 09 

SHRC calls upon the concerned legal authorities in Lebanon not to deport five Syrian citizens it has detained to Syria | 01 May 09 

SHRC has called upon the Syrian Authorities to release the human rights activist Nizar Rastanawi following the end of his prison sentence of four years | 01 May 09 

Dr. Mustafa al-Sheikh and engineer Musa Hamada and his brother Hasan Hamada who were arrested a year ago released last week | 28 Apr 09 

The military intelligence in Aleppo arrested the citizen Taher Mohammed Abdulkader from his home on 23/2/2009 | 22 Apr 09 

The Supreme State Security non-constitutional Court (SSSC) issued extreme and harsh sentences against seven Syrian Kurdish activists | 15 Apr 09