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October 16, 2009

Syrian Dissident Attorney Arrested
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In Syria, one of the nation’s best-known dissidents has been arrested.
The seventy-eight-year-old human rights attorney Haitham Maleh was taken
to a security headquarters in Damascus Wednesday and has not been heard
from since. Maleh spent seven years in jail in the 1980s. Maleh had been
defending a fellow lawyer who was arrested in July after he called for
the release of political prisoners and documented their plight.



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