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Human Rights in Syria: The Never-Ending Emergency

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 October 2009

Dina Hadad*
Affiliation:
Department of Law and Criminology, University of Wales, Aberystwyth, U.K.: e-mail: dch@aber.ac.uk

Abstract

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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2009

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References

NOTES

1 Interview with Syrian human rights activist (name withheld), 29 August 2007.

2 United Nations Doc. CCPR/CO/71/SYR/Add.1 (2001), Comments by the Government of the Syrian Arab Republic on the concluding observations of the Human Rights Committee under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights: Syrian Arab Republic, 28 May 2001 (Follow-up Response by State Party).

3 Article 19, Walls of Silence: Media and Censorship in Syria, Global Campaign for Free Expression, 1998, http://www.article19.org/pdfs/publications/syria-walls-of-silence.pdf (accessed 9 March 2008).

4 The lack of normalcy as described by the Committees for the Defence of Democratic Freedoms and Human Rights, ibid.

5 Interview with Syrian human rights activist (name withheld), 15 August 2007.