Syria: Legal concern/Incommunicado detention/ Fear of torture

Muhammad Ghazi Hubayib, aged around 50, doctor was arrested on 16 April at Damascus airport, when he returned from exile, and has been held incommunicado since then. His arrest is apparently connected to his former affiliation to the unauthorized Muslim Brotherhood Organization, and Amnesty International fears that he may be tortured. Another former member of the organisation who returned in similar circumstances died in custody earlier this year.

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