University examinations are finishing and the Syrian authorities have detained many Kurdish students, and are withholding information about their whereabouts and reasons for detention.

Abdullah Mohammed Mesko, born in 1987 in Kobani, is a student in his last year of study in the Faculty of Law and Political Science at the Beirut Arab University. Mesko was arrested by the joint security patrol headed by the area manager Abdul Jawad Jenaidee, on 12 February 2010 and was removed immediately to Aleppo by a detachment of Political Security in Kobani. Until this time, there is no information concerning the location and the reasons for his arrest.

Mesko and other Kurdish students were detained by Syrian security authorities and there is no information about many of them.

This leads SKS to call for international pressure to demand that the Syrian authorities allow these students to take their essential exams, and to appeal for the immediate release of all Kurdish detained students in Syrian prisons. We also appeal to humanitarian organizations and human rights groups, regional and international organisations to work with the Syrian authorities in order to enable the students to be in a student exam room and not a prison cell, to achieve and not suffer torture.

International Support Kurds in Syria Association – SKS

15 July 2010