Tuesday, February 24, 2009

Why Can't we insult Simba?

The Supreme State Security Court has used sham trials to prosecute activists, bloggers and citizens accused of “insulting the Syrian president” in private conversations, and it should be abolished, Human Rights Watch said Tuesday. The group said the court “criminalizes freedom of expression” and allows lawyers to play only a ceremonial role. The court has tried thousands of people since it was re-established in 1992, after a hiatus during the 1980s.

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