Observatoire des droits humains (anglais seulement)

Syrian-born man charged with spying on activists in USA

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12 October 2011 A Syrian-born man has been arrested in the USA for allegedly collaborating with Bashar al-Assad's government to spy on Syrian activists living abroad. The US authorities’ arrest of a man accused of spying on Syrian activists in the country sends a message that the Syrian government’s crackdown on opposition has its limits, Amnesty International said today.Mohamad Anas Haitham Soueid, aged 47, is due to appear before a District Court in Alexandria, near Washington, DC, this afternoon. The Syrian-born naturalized US citizen has been charged with spying on US-based Syrian…

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