Syrian security denies to have kidnapped Nizar Nayouf
Syria, Politics, 6/1/2002

Well-informed Syrian sources have denied Syrian security to have chased journalist Nizar Nayouf, noting that the "story of his kidnapping" is a fabrication of his ill imagination.

The Syrian sources stressed that the Belgian authorities will discover very soon that his kidnapping -- two days ago Nayouf brother alleged his brother Nizar was kidnapped in Brussels -- is a story fabricated by his ill imagination and it is not the first time in which Nayouf comes up with such false lies which aim at distorting Syria's "national and patriotic stances and to undermine her at the current prevailing conditions."

The Syrian sources said that what is claimed by Nayouf that the Syrian security is chasing him is groundless, noting that the Syrian authorities officially permitted him to leave Syria and he had earlier left the country, safely.

To this effect, the London- based al-Hayat daily said Friday that lawyer Anwar al-Bunni had informed it in a written statement that a warrant of arrest was issued against Nayouf from the first investigation judge in Damascus in 2002 on charges of changing the constitution illegally (according to article 290 of the sanctions law), and disseminating news that undermine the "psychology of the nation" according to article 287 of the constitution) and also provoking sectarianism according to article ( 370 of the Syrian constitution )..

The paper indicated that Nayouf was released in May 2001 after he was jailed since the beginning of the 1990s. President al-Assad permitted him to get a passport and to travel abroad for medical treatment.

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