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In Syria's prison without cause for More than 20 Years March 12, 06 Assyrian Democratic Organization Damascus, Syria No one knows the number of the Syrian detainees forgotten in the dark dungeons of the Syrian prisons. No one even knows about all types of torture they undergo throughout long years of detention without any trial, nor does anyone hear about them or their issues, not even their closest family members, particularly amongst the circles of the common people who do not deal with politics or common cause because of the fear of the regime. It is for this that the news of the Assyrian youth Hanna Shamoun, detained for more than 20 years in Al-Saydnaia prison, without his issue being raised or his name written down among the lists of the Syrian committees for human rights, came not as a surprise . The tragedy of Yacoub Hanna began in 1985 after his return with his family to the homeland from Lebanon where they had gone for work in 1972 . Their return came after the amnesty issued by president Hafez Al-Assad at the beginning of 1985 involving those who had failed to serve military service in Syria. According to this amnesty both Yacoub, born in 1963 and his brother Fawaz, born in 1966, surrendered themselves to the Conscription Department in Qamishly with the aim of joining the military service and performing their national duty. But the amnesty was a bitter disappointment to them . On 7 January 1985 late at night, a patrol from the State Security Force took both brothers (Yacoub and Fawaz ) from their family home to their headquarters in Qamishly where they underwent for nearly torture and beating for an entire month. Then for many years, no one heard anything of them until in 1996 when Fawaz was released from prison without any trial, whereas the fate of Yacoub remained unknown. In 2001 a Security Department informed his family that he was in Saydnaya Prison where he had been detained for more than 20 years without trial in violation to all international conventions of human rights signed by Syria. The case of Yacoub with its legal and juristic dimensions refutes all the allegations of the Syrian authorities about openness, transparency, fairness of trials, independence of judicial system and improvement of human right in Syria. In view of the human tragedy of the Syrian citizen Yacoub Hanna Shamoun, the Assyrian Democratic Organization in Syria appeals to all human right organizations, societies and committees in Syria, Arab countries and the world at large to demand the Syrian authorities to disclose the circumstances behind the detention of Yacoub Hanna and to refer him to an authorized civilian court of law for an open trial, and further to give him the right to retain a lawyer to represent and defend him against charges- if any- punishable by the Syrian law, or to set him free immediately with the due compensation for the moral, physical and material damage done, to both his brother and himself, during this long period of arbitrary detention We, signatories to this statement: human rights organizations, societies and committees, whether individuals, groups or national figures in Syria and the world, announce our solidarity with this campaign, and demand the Syrian authorities to release Yacoub Hanna, as well as, all political detainees and prisoners of conscience and to put an end to the arbitrary illegal detention and to torture in the Syrian prisons.   Sign petition to be sent to the UN Human Rights Commission ----

Who are the Christians of Iraq?   Ancient prayer in apreciation of the months in a year "Through your mercies, Lord, may the months be for us the source of joy, the years, of delight; let them bequeath to us in peace, O Lord: Nisan has its flowers, Iyyar its lilies too, Haziran its sheaves, Tammuz its heaps of grain; let Ab and Illul bring along grape-clusters on poles, let the two Teshris give response to each other in the grape pressing; let the two Kanuns bring rest, Shebat and Adar, the Fast. To you, Lord, be the praise." March = Addar (a's as in Art)  In Syria's prison without cause for More than 20 Years  March 12, 06 Muslim's Blunt Criticism of Islam Draws Threats March 11, 06 An Interview with Rosie Malek-Yonan by akitu.de.vu March 11, 06 IRAQI CHRISTIANS: CAUGHT IN A REFUGEE WEB  March 9, 06 Will You be an Assyrian Actor? March 8, 06 In Turkey Assyrians/Syriacs are being robbed of property they owned for thousands of years March 8, 06 Iraqi Women Attacked for Removing Headscarves, NGO Says March 7, 06 Car bomb in Turkey injures Assyrian March 6, 06 ASSYRIAN CHRISTIANS KEEP THE FAITH  March 5, 06 "Christians do not wants to leave Iraq for good" March 4, 06 Iraqi Catholics Donate to Rebuild Samarra Mosque March, 3, 06 Relatives and friends gather at store where 2 were slain March 3, 06 A Preliminary Investigation into Assyrian Identity March 3, 06 Firodil Institute Meets The Christian Fair Trade Group March 2, 06  UNESCO funding reconstruction of destroyed mosques but not Churches March 2, 06 Christian Churches in Iraq Subjected to Synchronized Terrorism March 1, 06 February = Eshvadt  A better System of Government for Iraq Feb 28, 06 Exiled in a Museum, the Dream of Peace  Feb. 26, 06 Kurdish Minister Has No Objection to Assyrian Christian Administrative Area Feb. 25, 06 Vatican to Muslims - practise what you preach Feb. 24, 06 The tombs of Ur reveal treasures Feb. 23, 06 Rosie Malek-Yonan To speak at Berkely University Feb. 23, 06 IRAQI CHURCHES BOMBED: LINK WITH DANISH CARTOONS  Feb. 22, 06 Assyrian movie at the multimedia theater in Ankawa  Feb. 21, 06 Policies and Politics Iraq Three years on Feb. 21, 06 The Roman Catholic Church Role in Promoting Chaldean identity for the Catholic Assyrians Feb. 18, 06 Assyrians of Netherlands Concerned About Refugees Being Sent Back  Feb. 17, 06 Terrorism against Christianity in Pakistan Feb. 17, 06 Brought Up To Hate Feb. 17, 06 Christian and Muslim Victims of Violence  Feb. 17, 06 Assyrian-Americans Reach Out to Relatives Displaced By Iraq War Feb. 17, 06 Talabani: Autonomy for Turkmens in Kurdistan Feb. 16, 06 Ending the Exodus of Iraq's Most Vulnerable Feb. 15, 06 Christians targeted in cartoons row Feb. 14, 06 Muhammad Cartoon Protests Move Into Turkish Christian Town Feb. 14, 06 Press Release by the Assyrian Society of United Kingdom Feb. 13, 06 Iraqi Parliament Member Once Sentenced by Death of Hussein Feb. 12, 06 Iraq dignitary's visit marred by bomb threat Feb. 10, 06 SUA condemns the violence and terror against the Christians of Iraq  Feb. 10, 06 We Are Not Arab-Americans Feb. 10, 06 An Interview with Yonadam Kanna Feb. 9, 06 Lebanon bishops express solidarity with Iraqi Christians Feb. 9. 06 Ba-oota d' Ninevayee or the Fast of the Ninevites Feb. 8, 06 Chaldo-Assyrian Iraqi lawmaker speaks to backers in El Cajon Feb. 8, 06 For Iraq's Persecuted Assyrians, a Safe Haven is the Only Solution Feb. 8, 06 The Christian Role on Iraq's Fragmented Streets Feb. 6, 07 Brotherhood of cabbies joins ranks to mourn murdered driver Feb. 6, 6 Iraq Islamic Group Asks Christians to Stop Prayers in Churches Feb. 6, 06 How do Mohammad's caricatures affect the Assyrians? Feb, 6, 06 Protesters Torch Danish Mission in Beirut and ransacked the Christian neighborhood Feb. 6.06 Ongoing Hidden Persecution of Christians In Iraq  Feb 5, 06 Protests Over Muhammad Drawings Intensify Feb. 3, 06  PRESENTATION OF AN ACADEMIC TEXTBOOK "CLASSICAL ASSYRIAN LANGUAGE" IN YEREVAN Feb. 3, 06 Iraq Christians on Edge As Cartoon Row Escalates Feb. 3, 06 Enough Is Enough - Six Assyrian Christian Churches Bombed in Iraq! Feb. 2, 06 Proposal for an Assyrian Regional Government Basic Law Feb. 2, 06 Ghetto-blaster: Cantons for Assyrians and Yazidis along with the Turkomans Feb. 2, 06  Christian Watchdog Groups Say Iraqi Christians 'Endangered,' Fear Mass Exodus Feb. 2. 06 Iraq Christians Urge Westerners to Refrain from Inflaming the Situation. Feb. 2, 06 Legislation seeks to limit NGOs in Iraq  Feb. 2, 06 January = Canoon Kharaya  Iraq's Simultaneous bomb attacks killed 3 Christians Jan. 31, 06 British House of Commons Holds Hearing on Assyrian Genocide Jan. 31, 06 IRAQ: Sectarian tensions on the rise Jan. 31, 06 The World's Silence over Terrorizing Christians in Iraq Jan. 30, 06 Explosions target Christian churches in Iraq Jan. 30, 06 US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice Comments about Iraq Jan. 28, 06 Insurgents Driven From Tal Afar in Northern Iraq: US Commander Jan. 27, 06 Saga of Assyrians in Iran comes to life in works by Turlock artist Jan.27, 06 Azerbaijani Soldiers Desecrate Armenian Christian Cemetery Jan. 25, 06 Iraq's WMD Secreted in Syria, Says Former Iraqi General Jan. 25. 06 The Armenians appreciate the Assyrian efforts for Seyfo's recognition. Jan. 25, 06  Cash meant for Iraqis 'misused' Jan. 25, 06 Explosion Rocks Baghdad's Assyrian District Jan. 25, 06 UC Berkeley Course "Assyrians, the Forgotten Ones" Jan. 25, 06 Moslem Protesters set Fire to a Christian House of Worship in Egypt Jan. 24, 06 Seyfo: Report of Conference at the House of Commons about the Armenian and Assyrian Genocide Jan. 24, 06 BRITISH FILM PREMIERE. DOCUMENTARY ON ARMENIAN AND ASSYRIANS GENOCIDES, 1915 Jan. 23, 06 Kidnapping of the Assyrians in Iraq continues Jan. 23, 05 Praying in Jesus' Own Language Jan. 23, 06 Renowned Assyrian Scholar Erica Reiner Jan. 22, 06 How does Iran effect Assyrians in Turlock California? Jan. 21, 06 The Seyfo Seminar at the House of Commons Jan. 21, 06 ADO: An Apolitical Petty Bourgeois Organisation or a Mature Political Leadership? Jan. 21, 06 Ammo Baba: tied, eye-folded, beaten, and then robbed Jan. 20, 06 The Final Iraq's Election's Results! Jan. 20, 06 Tomb raiders Jan. 18, 06 The Assyrian Republican mayor , Man on the move  Jan. 18, 06 Donations For Allan Enwiyah Jan. 18, 06 Exhibition by the Assyrian artist Hannibal Alkhas Jan. 17, 06 Politics & Policies: Deconstructing Iraq Jan. 16, 06 Poly Sci Course on Assyrians Offered at UC, Berkeley Jan. 15, 06 Kurds focus on corruption in Kurdistan administration  Jan. 13, 06 Ecumenism and the Eucharist Jan. 13, 06 An Assyrian Coach of the Canadian Beaver Bruins hockey team Jan.12, 06 Turkey's massacre of the Assyrians and the Armenians Jan. 11, 06 New Iraqi Constitution May Limit Women's Freedoms Jan. 10, 06 The Boomerang Effect in Iraq: If 'Kurdistan', Why Not Assyria? Jan. 10, 06 Bishop's Report From the Assyrians of Iraq Jan. 9, 06 woman journalist abducted in Iraq, interpreter, killed jan. 9, 06 PanGlobal TV adds AssyriaSat to channel lineup Jan. 9, 06 Bishop Worrys About the future of the Christians in Iraq Jan. 7, 06 Major Terror Plot Against US Ignored By US Media Jan. 6, 06 Jan. 6, 06 U.S. troops deliver gifts to Iraq - school supplies Jan. 5, 06 Iraq Election Despair Spreads To Expatriates Jan. 5, 06 Assyriologist, Erica Reiner Dead at 81- 1924-2005 Jan. 4, 06 The Last Assyrians Jan. 3, 06 Egypt Appoints First Christian Governor in Three Decades Jan, 3, 06 If Only Rocks Could Talk!  Jan . 2, 06 Car bombs, fuel riots usher in New Year in Iraq Jan. 1, 06 Errors in Biblical Dating According to Ancient Assyrian records January 1, 06     December  Archives