C.D.F condemns arbitrary transfer against activist Osama Edward Mousa

    


Damascus – CDF — Committees for the Defense of Democratic Freedoms and Human Rights in Syria (CDF) condemned the arbitrary transferring procedures by the Syrian authorities against the Assyrian Syrian activist and writer Osama Edward Mousa Kario , member of the C.D.F , and other Syrian citizens .

C.D.F noted in a statement issued by the Office of the Secretariat in Damascus on Wednesday, April 8, 2009, that “these decisions have sparked resentment and discontent, especially as it was issued without explanation of the reasons for transfer” .

C.D.F , a member of the International Federation for Human Rights and the Euro-Mediterranean Network for Human Rights, expressed deep concern of the “constant interference of the security services into the details of the lives of Syrian citizens without the protection of contractual”

The statement called for the Syrian government to the need to “stop this punitive action against the Syrian citizens and to cancel orders and administrative decisions and the right of citizens of the above-mentioned is with them and returned them to their basic duty to exercise the freedom of career education and away from the eyes of the security and control.”

Assyrian Syrian activist and blogger Osama Edward Mousa Kario , an English language teacher , was transferred from his town Taltamar to Kamishly city ( more than 100 km away from his school where he teaches ) as an ordinary employee , after preventing him from teaching in schools .

Kario had been arrested on February 27th 2008 due to his online writings , in which he criticized the Syrian government economical policies .