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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10189
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) eu/syria

EU condemns prison sentences against two lawyers and a writer

Brussels, 27/07/2010 (Agence Europe) - The EU “strongly condemns” the sentence pronounced in Damascus against two Syrian lawyers, Al Maleh and Haitham Al Hassani, who have received a penalty of three years' imprisonment, a press release from EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs Catherine Ashton indicates. The EU also “deeply deplores” the renewed arrest on 17 June of Ali Al-Abdullah, a Syrian writer, a day after his release from prison having completed his previous sentence....

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