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Damascus, SANA – A sit-in was staged on Tuesday in front of the headquarters of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Damascus in a show of condemnation of the Israeli brutal practices and arbitrary arrests targeting Syrians in the occupied Golan.
The event, which was organized by the Committee for Supporting the Syrian Captives, Liberated Prisoners and Detainees in the Israeli jails, marked the Syrian Prisoner Day. People from the liberated Quneitra city took part in the event.
Nearly fifth of the residents of the occupied Golan have faced arrest and prosecution by the Israeli forces since the Golan was occupied in 1967. Many, including women, children and elderly people, are still arbitrarily detained in the Israeli jails.
The participants in the sit-in demanded that the international community and human rights organizations pressure the Zionist entity to immediately release the Syrian and Arab prisoners and detainees.
Ali al-Younes, Chairman of the Committee for Supporting Prisoners, who is a liberated prisoner, handed over a letter to the Chairperson of the ICRC mission in Syria Marianne Gasser in which the Committee called on the ICRC mission to assume its responsibilities and force the Israeli occupation authorities to stop its arbitrary arrest policy against the Syrians in the Golan.
The Committee also demanded the immediate release of all the Syrians held in the Israeli prisons, making a particular reference to Sedqi al-Maqt who was again taken into custody on February 25, 2015 without any legal warrant, after he had spent over 25 years in Israeli jails.
Gasser, for her part, promised to convey the letter to the ICRC and follow up on the prisoners issue in the Israeli jails.
Earlier on Monday, locals of Quneitra marked the occasion by holding a seminar where the participants called upon the International legal and human rights institutions to exert more pressure on the Israeli occupation Authorities to release all the Syrian prisoners, on top the re-detained captor Sidiki al- Maqt, while a photo exhibition was held
on the sidelines of the seminar which embraced 34 photos of the Syrian detainees and of the victories achieved by the Syrian army and the armed forces against the Takfiri terrorist organizations.
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