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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10212
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) ep/syria

Damascus is urged to release human rights lawyer Haytham al-Maleh

Strasbourg, 10/09/2010 (Agence Europe) - In a joint resolution by the EPP, S&D, ALDE, Greens/EFA, ECR and GUE/NGL groups, adopted on Thursday 9 September, the European Parliament urges the Syrian government to immediately and unconditionally release the human rights lawyer, Haytham al-Maleh, who was sentenced by a military court on 4 July this year to three years' imprisonment for having diffused fallacious and exaggerated information detrimental to national feeling. Parliament said in...

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