Syria - Mazen Darwish to be tried by special military court

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In Arabic (بالعربية) Syria's airforce intelligence service refused to comply with a judge's request to produce Mazen Darwish, the head of the Syrian Centre for Media and Freedom of Expression (SCM), in court on 6 August, at a hearing for those arrested during a raid on the centre's Damascus headquarters on 16 February. In a letter to the court, the airforce intelligence service simply said that the SCM had been operating without permission. Darwish, of whom there has been no news since his arrest, (...)

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