Tuhama Mahmoud Ma'rouf: Difference between revisions

Ma'rouf was originally detained in 1993 for her involvement with the PCA, along with eight other female activists.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/mde24/010/1993/en/ |title=Further information on UA 292/93 (MDE 24/07/93, 26 August 1993) Fear of torture/legal concern |author= |date=2 December 1993 |work= |publisher=[[Amnesty International]] |accessdate=24 January 2012}}</ref> The arrests were part of a general crackdown on the party which effectively destroyed it.<ref name=USNAS />

She was then found guilty and sentenced ''[[trial in absentia|in absentia]]'' on 5 November 1995 by the [[Supreme State Security Court]] (SSSC) of violating Article 306 of Syria's Penal Code, "membership in a secret organization which aims to change the economic and social status of the state".<ref name=AI /><ref name=USNAS /> However, for unknown reasons, authorities did not arrest her to begin her sentence until 6 February 2010 in [[Aleppo]].<ref name=USNAS>{{cite web |url=http://sites.nationalacademies.org/PGA/humanrights/PGA_066616 |title=Case Information |author= |year=2012 |work= |publisher=Committee on Human Rights of the [[US National Academy of Sciences]] |accessdate=24 January 2012}}</ref> Three days later, she appeared before the court and was ordered to be transferred to [[Adra prison]] to serve her sentence of six years' imprisonment.<ref name=AI>{{cite web |url=https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/mde24/009/2011/en/ |title=Urgent Action: Female Political Prisoner on Hunger Strike |author= |date=4 March 2011 |work= |publisher=[[Amnesty International]] |accessdate=23 January 2012}}</ref> On 18 February 2011, she began a [[hunger strike]] to demand a transfer to a woman's prison.<ref name=AI />

Amnesty International protested her imprisonment and called for her immediate release,<ref name=AI /> as did the Committee on Human Rights of the [[US National Academy of Sciences]],<ref name=USNAS /> the Damascus Center for Human Rights Studies,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.dchrs.org/english/news.php?id=162&idC=2 |title=Female Political Prisoner on Hunger Strike |author= |date= |work= |publisher=Damascus Center for Human Rights Studies |accessdate=24 January 2012}}</ref> and [[Human Rights Watch]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/country,,HRW,,SYR,,4ce247331e,0.html |title=Syria: Transfer Women Out of Male Prison |author= |date=12 November 2010 |work= |publisher=[[Human Rights Watch]] |accessdate=24 January 2012}}</ref>