George Galloway Praises Syrian Dictatorship, Denies human rights violations
Posted by admin on July 29th, 2010
The human rights record of Syria: A state of emergency has been in effect since 1963 and it gives “security forces sweeping powers of arrest and detention,” according to Amnesty International. Syria is a one-party state without free elections and “freedom of expression and association remain strictly controlled.” In 2009 “hundreds of people were arrested and hundreds of others remained imprisoned for political reasons”. Military Police were reported to have killed at least 17 detainees. Human rights defenders have been harassed and persecuted. Women and minorities face discrimination. According to Human Rights Watch, as of 2009 Syria’s poor human rights situation had “deteriorated further”. Authorities arrested political and human rights activists, censored websites, detained bloggers, and imposed travel bans. Syria’s multiple security agencies continue to detain people without arrest warrants. No political parities were licensed and emergency rule, imposed in 1963, remained in effect. Amnesty International reports, “members of the Kurdish minority faced discrimination; many were effectively stateless and denied equal access to social and economic rights. Women were subject to discrimination and gender-based violence. Sixteen civilians were killed in a bomb explosion which state media attributed to an armed group. the Syrian government’s “respect for human rights worsened”. Members of the security forces arrested and detained individuals without providing just cause …
July 29th, 2010 at 10:02 am
@syrian4ever
it’s sad to see that you’ve been so brainwashed by your state media that you don’t even know the facts about your own country.
when you go to “elections” do you have the possibility to choose anyone else apart from Assad ?
how does it feel like to have one leader for life who can do anything he wants and you have no ability to say no ?
how do you feel about all the people rotting in jail with no trial because they wrote something on the internet that Assad didn’t like ?
July 29th, 2010 at 10:02 am
@syrian4ever it’s sad to see that you’ve been so brainwashed by your state media that you don’t even know the facts about your own country.
when you go to “elections” do you have the possibility to choose anyone else apart from Assad?
how does it feel like to have one leader for life who can do anything he wants and you have no ability to say no?
how do you feel about all the people rotting in jail with no trial because they wrote something on the internet that Assad didn’t like ?
July 29th, 2010 at 10:02 am
guys plz leave us alone
we are happy with our leadership and we love bashar assad
stop making up funny numbers.
July 29th, 2010 at 10:02 am
This man is racist…”israeli website”? you are sick sick man, all the reports came from western and even arab investigators you idiot.
July 29th, 2010 at 10:02 am
Galloway = 21st Century Lord Haw Haw.
July 29th, 2010 at 10:02 am
what an absolute piece of shit galloway is.
July 29th, 2010 at 10:02 am
Syria is a fascist country.
they even harbored the Nazi war criminal Alois Brunner who became Syria’s government advisor
July 29th, 2010 at 10:02 am
“israeli website”
Galloway you racist lunatic
July 29th, 2010 at 10:02 am
Grownig? Good video all the same. Galloway is totally morally corrupt, anyone who supports Galloway must be too.
July 29th, 2010 at 10:02 am
Galloway is among the worst mankind has to offer
July 29th, 2010 at 10:02 am
Syria is ranked quite low in most of the indexes documenting social, economic and scientific achievements.
HDI (Human development index) 107, SJR 99 (10 published scientific documents per 100,000 people, which is very miserable), Press freedom 165, CPI (Corruption Perceptions Index) 126, IEF (economic freedom) 145 (falling in the category of “repressed”), etc. Where they obviously rank quite high, thats the “consanguinity map”. George, you fail yet again…
July 29th, 2010 at 10:02 am
@TurboDally, Galloway *is* a Muslim!
July 29th, 2010 at 10:02 am
Anyone with a bit of intelligence can realise that George is exploiting the gullibility of muslims for his bit of fame and money. Ted Haggard did the same, it took a farce of the most ridiculous nature for people to realise this, I wonder how long we will have to wait for such a farce on Georgie’s side for people to wakeup.
July 29th, 2010 at 10:02 am
In Syria, 90% of its people live in abject poverty, whilst having $40 billion stored away in Switz bank accounts.
So much for Goerge’s claim for speaking up for the poor when he openly endorse’s Syrias dictatorship.
July 29th, 2010 at 10:02 am
George is a money grabbibg shell of a man.