{"id":841,"date":"2008-07-23T22:07:13","date_gmt":"2008-07-23T19:07:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/?p=841"},"modified":"2013-10-12T22:24:21","modified_gmt":"2013-10-12T19:24:21","slug":"kurdish-political-party-chief-arrested-in-syria-rights-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2008\/07\/23\/kurdish-political-party-chief-arrested-in-syria-rights-group\/","title":{"rendered":"Kurdish Political Party Chief Arrested In Syria &#8211; Rights Group"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DAMASCUS (AFP)&#8211;<strong>The head of a banned Kurdish political group has been arrested by the Syrian security services under emergency laws<\/strong>, a human rights group said Monday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The military security services in Damascus arrested Mohammed <span style=\"background: yellow 0% 50%; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;\">Mussa<\/span>, secretary general of the Kurdish Left Party on Saturday,&#8221; the National Organization of Human Rights in Syria, or NOHRS, said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Mussa was arrested and questioned previously by security services in Hassake, northeastern Syria because of &#8220;his party&#8217;s activities and his comments to the Arab media,&#8221; NOHRS said.<\/p>\n<p>The group branded his detention as unconstitutional because he was arrested under &#8220;emergency powers which have been in place in Syria for 45 years,&#8221; rather than by judicial authorities. Syrian authorities should release Mussa immediately and abandon the emergency powers under which they are making arrests, the group said.<\/p>\n<p>Mussa&#8217;s party also called for their leader&#8217;s release, saying, &#8220;Mohammed Mussa is a nationalist who defends the interests and the legitimate rights of the Kurdish people as well as those of all the Syrian people.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The majority of Syria&#8217;s 1.5 million Kurds live in the north of the country. There are 11 unauthorized Kurdish political parties in Syria, independent observers say.<\/p>\n<p>Syrian Kurdish officials deny claims they aim to establish a separate state and say they only want political rights and recognition of their language and culture.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <span class=\"removed_link\" title=\"http:\/\/www.nasdaq.com\/aspxcontent\/NewsStory.aspx?cpath=20080721%5CACQDJON200807210941DOWJONESDJONLINE000283.htm&amp;&amp;mypage=newsheadlines&amp;title=Kurdish%20Political%20Party%20Chief%20Arrested%20In%20Syria%20-%20Rights%20Group\">www.nasdaq.com<\/span>, 21.07.2008<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DAMASCUS (AFP)&#8211;The head of a banned Kurdish political group has been arrested by the Syrian security services under emergency laws, a human rights group said Monday. &#8220;The military security services in Damascus arrested Mohammed Mussa, secretary general of the Kurdish Left Party on Saturday,&#8221; the National Organization of Human Rights in Syria, or NOHRS, said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":30672,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[191,1280],"class_list":["post-841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-syria","tag-kurdish-left-party","tag-pkk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}