The International Committee for Supporting Michel Kilo

 

 

 

Syrian society calls for his release,

A considerable part of the ruling National front sees the continuation of his arrest as a big political wrong,

 The Arab Intellectuals, jurists and journalists call for his immediate release.

Michel Kilo's safety and freedom must be a trust in our necks and on our shoulders and each one of us has the ability to take a step and do something for him.

Participate in the international campaign for releasing Michel Kilo!

The International Committee for Supporting Michel Kilo

   The Committee coordinator

Nasser Al-ghazali

 

Michelkilo@dctcrs.org 

F & T  004619251237

Coordinateur : Naser AL-ghazali

 

Having accustomed to practicing different ways of profaning people dignity, the security forces (intelligence agencies) would only skim over the urgent statements, which denounce the detention campaigns, then wait indifferently the storm to be calmed down, and their victims to be completely forgotten.

To confront this absolute hostility practiced against citizenship and human rights it is the very task of us not to issue routine declaration, but rather make each and every additional detention day of  any freedom fighter as a disgrace mark in the jailer' front. Together with taking into consideration that it is one of  our main concern to expose widely all kinds of  chasing, harassment or freedom limitation, making them known in every time and place. It is also our duty to reinforce and advance our solidarity with victims by converting authorities' oblivion and neglecting into vivid and omnipresent memory.

although there is a great deal of media, cultural and political sympathy with the intellectual and journalist Michel Kilo, but it is still necessary to create a collective gathering point, able to exert more effective pressure and blockade upon his beaters in order to have him, as well as his colleagues, released.

Our aspiration, as an international committee, is to be this collective gathering for all those who are sympathetic with Michel and the rest of prisoners, in a course of an effective mechanism, by which we would achieve this aim. We will insist, in the same time, on our confrontation with the policy of quieting and oblivion, setting ourselves opposed to all human rights violations.

The committee summarizes its goals in the following:

1- Releasing the intellectual and journalist Michel Kilo and all his colleagues, as well as holding up every judicial pursuit against them since it is in a clear disagreement with Syrian Constitution and the International Convert on Civil and Political Rights which Syria had already ratified.

2- Judging all the exceptional trials in Syria as a result of the State of Emergency Law that have been applied since 1963. Also because of the security mentality which must be invalidated in the contemporary world; the thing that make us sustain the struggle of Syrian democratic and jurists people in the aim of putting an end to the State of Emergency Law together with releasing all prisoners of conscience.

3- The committee highly appreciates the democratic Syrians' striving for an up-to-date democratic constitution, and a peaceful transition to democracy.

 

     

Committee's working plan

 

1- The committee will do its best to participate in all symposiums, training workshops and political and national conferences to keep this dossier alive, because oblivion is a victory for the oppressor.

2- Working on activating this issue in the audible, visible and written mass media.

3- Establishing an international, Arabic and Syrian solidarity network for the activists engaging in human rights field, for releasing Michel Kilo and all his colleagues.

4- Holding frequent meetings with the High Delegation of Human Rights.

5- making interaction and communication with the following Arab and international corps:

a- The exclusive reporter for the independence of judges and lawyers.

b- The exclusive reporter for freedom of speech and opinion.

c- The private Team intended for arbitrary arrest.

d- The press institutions, organizations and societies working on freedom of the press, expression and practicing a profession.

 

    The International Committee for Supporting Michel Kilo

 

The members

 

Dr. Violet Dagher, the chief of Arab committee for Human Rights

Dr. Nader Farjani, the main Editor of Arab development reports

Dr. Haytham manna, an intellectual and a combatant for rights

Dr. Munsif Al-Marzooky, an intellectual and a combatant for rights

Dr. Burhan Ghalyoun, an intellectual and a professor of sociopolitical science in Sorbonne university- Paris

Dr. Sylvie Duplus, a professor in Medicine collage and a judicial activist

Dr. Jan Claude Bonsain, an activist in human activities

Dr. Hugo Dias, representative of jurists society in Southern and Northern America

Dr. Philip Wispord, an activist in civic society

Lawyer Michael Elman, the former Vice President of International Union for Lawyers- Britain

Lawyer Daniel faugue, jural activist and a lawyer in political issues

Lawyer Rashid Moselly, the chairman of International Justice Organization

Dr. Abbas Orwa, chairman of Granada institution

The poet Tawfeek ben Brek,

Dr. Mai Al-Rahbi, an activist in woman and human rights issues

Abbas Abbas, a former prisoner and an activist in public affair

Lawyer Mustafa Al-Hasan, chairman of the Center for Judicial Help – Aswan

Lawyer Ahmad saif Al-Islam, director of Hisham Mubarak Center – Cairo

Lawyer Jamal Eid, director of the Arabic Network for Human Rights data

Journalist Bahiya Mardini, a member in Hurryat Organization, once headed by Michel Kilo

Dr. Hiba Raouf Ezzat, university graduate and researcher, Egypt

Abdullah Turkmany, Syrian writer and researcher

Dr. Ammar Kuraby, chairman of National Organization for Human Rights in Syria

Lawyer Abd Al-Raheem Ghammaze, one of the advocates of Michel Kilo- National Organization for Human Rights in Syria

Professor Almustafa Sweleh, a researcher, a member of the cadre of the Arab committee for Human Rights- Morocco

Dr. Matrook Al-Faleh, a researcher and a university professor- Saudi Arabia

The poet Ali Al-Dumaini, a reformist and a jural activist

Natalie Bujradeh, jural activist

Farook Sabe Allail, economist- National Democratic Assembly

Dr. Salah Al-Deen Sedhum, a surgeon and a jural activist

The poet Abdullah Al-Rayami, a jural activist-Oman Sultanate

Lawyer Osama Al-Mnawer, an advocate of political issues in Kuwait

Naser Al-Ghazali, chairman of Damascus Center for theoretical and Civil Rights Studies

 

Defense Staff emerging from the Committee

 

Lawyer Mustafa Al-Hasan, chairman of the Center for Judicial Help – Aswan

Lawyer Ahmad saif Al-Islam, director of Hisham Mubarak Center – Cairo

Lawyer Daniel faugue, jural activist and a lawyer in political issues

Lawyer Rashid Moselly, the chairman of International Justice Organization

Lawyer Abd Al-Raheem Ghammaze, one of the advocates of Michel Kilo- National Organization for Human Rights in Syria

Lawyer Jamal Eid, director of the Arabic Network for Human Rights data

 

The Committee welcomes all the lawyers who wish for joining the Defense Staff, and gently asks whoever wants to be a member to let us know what he can do.

 

    The International Committee for Supporting Michel Kilo