Shibal Ibrahim ( ar, شبال إبراهيم) (born c. 1977) is an activist for
Kurdish
Kurdish may refer to:
*Kurds or Kurdish people
*Kurdish languages
*Kurdish alphabets
*Kurdistan, the land of the Kurdish people which includes:
**Southern Kurdistan
**Eastern Kurdistan
**Northern Kurdistan
**Western Kurdistan
See also
* Kurd (dis ...
rights in
Qamishly,
Syria
Syria ( ar, سُورِيَا or سُورِيَة, translit=Sūriyā), officially the Syrian Arab Republic ( ar, الجمهورية العربية السورية, al-Jumhūrīyah al-ʻArabīyah as-Sūrīyah), is a Western Asian country loc ...
. He is a member of the
Union of Young Kurds in Syria, a group which organizes pro-reform protests in predominantly Kurdish areas.
On 22 September 2011, Ibrahim was arrested at his family home by plainclothes security officers and is being held incommunicado. His family alleges that marks on his body indicate that he was tortured while in custody.
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In January 2012, ]Amnesty International
Amnesty International (also referred to as Amnesty or AI) is an international non-governmental organization focused on human rights, with its headquarters in the United Kingdom. The organization says it has more than ten million members and sup ...
designated him a prisoner of conscience "detained solely for his activism", called for his immediate release, and launched a letter-writing campaign on his behalf.[ His arrest was also protested by the Committees for the Defense of Freedoms and Human Rights in Syria.]
References
1970s births
Living people
Syrian Kurdish people
Syrian activists
Syrian dissidents
Amnesty International prisoners of conscience held by Syria
Syrian prisoners and detainees
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