The Local Coordinating Committees have put out a press release demanding that the Syrian regime stop harassing the family of recently slain human rights activist Giath Matar. Matar is not the first activist whose family has been harassed after an activist's death. Often, the families of activists who are killed can be detained and tortured themselves through guilt by association. The entire press release is posted below:
Syria - The Syrian government should stop harassing the family of the martyr Ghiath Matar
Syrian television is following the family of Ghiath Matar to force them to tell fake stories about the death of their son
Local Coordination Committees in Syria (LCC) have said that the Syrian authorities should stop harassing the family of the martyr Ghiath Matar, and stop threatening his family members. The family of Ghiath woke up today to find the walls of their home filled with sentences saying "Down with the Matar family for hosting the American Ambassador", in reference to the visit of 5 western ambassadors to the wake of martyr Matar where they expressed their condolences to the family of the martyr.
The LCC have said: "There is a history to harassing the family of the martyr Matar which dates back to before he was killed. His brother Anas Matar was detained for almost two months and was not release until Ghiath was killed. His other brother, Hazem, his father, and one of his relatives were also detained and then released later. However, harassment continued until Ghiath was martyred where some officers in airforce intelligence, the security service division who arrested the martyr Matar and who are responsible for his death under torture, called the family of Ghiath and threatened them until they told them that their son is detained and that they will return him dead. Airforce intelligence forces attacked the funeral of Martyr Ghiath Matar and opened fire on mourners, killing young man Ahmad Ayrout. The next day, agents from security services and airforce intelligence went to the wake of Ayrout, and claimed that they were there for paying respects. Then Addounia TV station (which accompanied the agents to the wake) asked the family of Ayrout to claim that Ghiath Matar was the one who killed Ahmad. The family of Ayrout refused and they pointed to the killed who was with security agents in the wake"
Hozan Ibrahim, the spokesperson of Local Coordination Committees in Syria said: "Only in Syria, sufferings of activists don't end by their martyrdom, but are extended to their funerals and wakes and maybe even more, harassments to martyr Ghiath's family can not be imagined, security forces did not stop at killing their 26 years son"
Syrian authorities didn't stop at opening live fire on the funeral of martyr Ghiath, they've surrounded the wake and prevented people from reaching the area to pay their respects to his family, and after the five ambassadors arrived to the condolences tent, air-force intelligence surrounded the tent and stopped people from getting in, one person at least was arrested, his name is Osama Myassar Ziadah.
Ibrahim added: "The martyr's family is under immense pressure to condemn the visit of the five ambassadors to condole them, Syrian TV is still chasing the family, accompanied by security forces, to force them to give a false story about Matar's cause of death, in short, you can't imagine what the family is going through"
Syria - The Syrian government should stop harassing the family of the martyr Ghiath Matar
Syrian television is following the family of Ghiath Matar to force them to tell fake stories about the death of their son
Local Coordination Committees in Syria (LCC) have said that the Syrian authorities should stop harassing the family of the martyr Ghiath Matar, and stop threatening his family members. The family of Ghiath woke up today to find the walls of their home filled with sentences saying "Down with the Matar family for hosting the American Ambassador", in reference to the visit of 5 western ambassadors to the wake of martyr Matar where they expressed their condolences to the family of the martyr.
The LCC have said: "There is a history to harassing the family of the martyr Matar which dates back to before he was killed. His brother Anas Matar was detained for almost two months and was not release until Ghiath was killed. His other brother, Hazem, his father, and one of his relatives were also detained and then released later. However, harassment continued until Ghiath was martyred where some officers in airforce intelligence, the security service division who arrested the martyr Matar and who are responsible for his death under torture, called the family of Ghiath and threatened them until they told them that their son is detained and that they will return him dead. Airforce intelligence forces attacked the funeral of Martyr Ghiath Matar and opened fire on mourners, killing young man Ahmad Ayrout. The next day, agents from security services and airforce intelligence went to the wake of Ayrout, and claimed that they were there for paying respects. Then Addounia TV station (which accompanied the agents to the wake) asked the family of Ayrout to claim that Ghiath Matar was the one who killed Ahmad. The family of Ayrout refused and they pointed to the killed who was with security agents in the wake"
Hozan Ibrahim, the spokesperson of Local Coordination Committees in Syria said: "Only in Syria, sufferings of activists don't end by their martyrdom, but are extended to their funerals and wakes and maybe even more, harassments to martyr Ghiath's family can not be imagined, security forces did not stop at killing their 26 years son"
Syrian authorities didn't stop at opening live fire on the funeral of martyr Ghiath, they've surrounded the wake and prevented people from reaching the area to pay their respects to his family, and after the five ambassadors arrived to the condolences tent, air-force intelligence surrounded the tent and stopped people from getting in, one person at least was arrested, his name is Osama Myassar Ziadah.
Ibrahim added: "The martyr's family is under immense pressure to condemn the visit of the five ambassadors to condole them, Syrian TV is still chasing the family, accompanied by security forces, to force them to give a false story about Matar's cause of death, in short, you can't imagine what the family is going through"
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