Tens of Algerian detainees in Syria families claim the intervention of President Abdelaziz Bouteflika to get their sons released, as they are subject to “torture and starvation in many prisons”. El Khabar sources reported that their number shifted to 45 Algerians arrested in border entries and the airport.
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Algeria detainee families sought yesterday the “urgent intervention of the President to release the arbitrary detained by the Syrian security services for about a month”. Sources told El Khabar about “maltreatment of detainees”, and that some of them have been released after paying bribes to Syrian security agents, whilst officials from Algeria embassy in Damascus denied it.
The Algerian Ambassador to Damascus advisor Mr. Saoudi Mohamed stated “Algerian detainees number is estimated at 40”, pointing out “consular affairs official is in daily contact with the detainees, he visits them to intervene whenever he deems necessary, since our nationals protection is incumbent to us”. He further considers that arrests fall within an ordinary campaign led by Syrian security services, and does not include only Algerians but many citizens from other Arab nationalities. He added “the matter is not as easy as imagined by the press”, alluding to Algerian suspects who attempted to reach Fatha al Islam in Lebanon. |