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Urgent Press Release regarding the Association’s condemn to the crimes of the Syrian authorities for the arrest of Saudi nationals within its territory and enforced disappearance - as hostages - because of their nationality.

Maonah Association for Human Rights and migration in Yemen expressed its deep shock after the frequency of press statements - issued the middle of this week - for Dr. Mufleh Qahtani President of the Saudi National Human Rights regarding the Syrian authorities that arrested of arbitrary for Saudi nationals in Syria and hiding them forcibly and their families not knowing their places of detention and the reasons for their detention. The association said in a press statement that it strongly denounces and condemns the Syrian authorities to commit these heinous crimes and serious violations of the collective human rights abuses against unarmed civilians as hostages for imprison them because of their nationality, and for a well-known political reasons, Because the act "hostages" is prohibited and inhuman and immoral, and even more, such crimes against humanity that don’t fall of limitations under the Conventions and international human rights, according to the statement the Association has announced its full solidarity with the demands of the President of the Saudi National Human Rights and the families of the victims in this regard, the League asked the Syrian authorities to immediately stop the commission of such criminal acts and the speed of detection on the unknown fate of the Saudi detainees in its jails and release them and return them to their country and not to use civilians as for political pressure, the Association also called the international community in general and in particular the Special Reporter’s Office of the High Commissioner for human Rights United Nations on enforced disappearances to move quickly in this case in order to clarify the unknown fate of these victims to the Syrian authorities, and to ensure their release and to prosecute those responsible for committing such gross violations of human rights in accordance with the laws and international conventions.

Issued by the Maonah Association for Human Rights and Immigration
Sana'a on 12 | 8 | 2011.