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Political activist Mesha'l al-Tammo, who is a member of Syria’s Kurdish minority, has not been seen since the early hours of 15 August 2008, when he set off from the northern city of 'Ein al-'Arab (known in Kurdish as Qobani) where he had undertaking activities on behalf of an unauthorised political party, the Kurdish Future Current in

According to Soparo, a Kurdish news web site, the car of Mashaal Tammo, the kidnapped Kurdish activist who disappeared Friday morning, was found parked outside the Military Security branch in Aleppo yet the security has denied it is holding him. The white car was recognized by his family with his laptop still inside.

Mashaal Tammo, a well known Kurdish activist, was kidnapped at 2am Friday from the city of Ain al-Arab in Northern Syria, reported the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, after a meeting he held with his attorney Radeef Mustapha and while en route to Aleppo. The Syrian Mukhabarat is suspected of the kidnapping.

 _{Mr. Mohamed Moussa, the Secretary of the Kurdish Leftist Party in Syria, was interrogated and threatened by the branch of military security in the city of Qamishli, and was then taken to the Division of Military Intelligence base 'Palestine' in Damascus, where investigations were ongoing with him for seven consecutive days.  He was then arrested on 19 July 2008 and he remains there until now}

Syrian poet Faraj Bayrakdar talks about torture and survival in Syrian prisons

last Saturday, exactly one week before Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is due in Paris to meet French President Nicolas Sarkozy in what appears to be a thawing of relations and perhaps even the

Foreign Minister Ali Babacan called his German counterpart, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, on Sunday to let him know the Germans were in Turkish custody, the Foreign Ministry said. Officials refused to say where or when the climbers were released.