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Syrian Security Services Arrest Lebanese As-Safir Editor Hilmi Moussa
10 July 2009
The Syrian security services arrested Tuesday overnight Hilmi Moussa, editor of the Israeli page in the Lebanese daily As-Safir while he was delivering a lecture in the Research Institute in Damascus. “Moussa flew to Damascus upon an invitation of the Research Institute to lecture on the developments within the Jewish state, to be followed by lunch on Wednesday with Syrian Information Minister Mohsen Bilal,” sources told Almustaqbal.org. The source said that the Syrian security broke into the auditorium where Moussa was lecturing, detained him before the audience without filing any charges against him. It was impossible to know the fate of Moussa and the reason behind his arrest until Tuesday overnight, while the Syrian security officials promised Lebanese security leaders to disclose the whereabouts about the arbitrary arrest. Unofficial information circulated revealed that Moussa was arrested on the background of a suspicious relationship linking him to one of the Mossad agents, while other news said Moussa’s detention came after a meeting he conducted with Israeli figures in a European country. In this context, it was learned that a former member of the Israeli Knesset Azmi Bishara visited Damascus to inquire about Moussa arrest. Some Lebanese figures well connected to Syrian leaders tried to intervene to unveil the whereabouts of the detention, but apparently none of the Syrian, political and security officials released information until Wednesday midnight. Syria’s history is stained with arbitrary detentions perceived as organized campaigns by the government to clampdown on human rights activists, journalists and writers.
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