Rights activist sentenced to five years prison in Syria
Syria, Politics, 4/4/2006

Islamic researcher and a human rights activist was sentenced on Sunday by Syria's State Security Court to five years imprisonment on charges of disseminating false information, inciting sectarian riots and forming a secret organization, a human rights activist said.

Riyadh Darar, a human rights activist, was arrested last June after delivering a speech during the funeral of a Kurdish Sheikh, Ammar Qurabi, a member of the National Organization for Human Rights, told Deutsche Presse-Agentur (dpa).

Darar was a member of the Committees for Reviving the Civil Society.

Since taking office in July 2000, President Bashar Assad has released hundreds of political prisoners, DPA said.

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