Abdullah Kaddo, a member of the political committee of the Syrian Opposition Coalition (SOC), stated that Tuesday, September 3rd, marks the 13th anniversary of the abduction of writer and activist Hussein Eisso by Assad regime forces. Eisso was taken while participating in a demonstration organized by him and several of his comrades, with around 2,000 people in attendance in the town of Hasaka.
Hussein Eisso, born in 1950 in the town of Darbasiyah in the Qamishli countryside, was 65 years old at the time of his abduction. He suffered from chronic illnesses and poor vision.
In a press statement, Kaddo strongly condemned the regime’s brutality towards civilians since the outbreak of the Syrian revolution in 2011. He emphasized that abduction, enforced disappearance, and detention have been among the harshest forms of punishment for Syrians demanding freedom, dignity, democratic transition, and an end to the regime’s tyranny.
Kaddo pointed out that Hussein Eisso was a dedicated activist who loved his country and its cause, which is the primary reason for his abduction and enforced disappearance for all these years, just like tens of thousands of other Syrians.
Kaddo called on the international community and human rights organizations to pressure the regime to reveal the fate of Hussein Eisso and the rest of the detainees and forcibly disappeared persons in its prisons, and to begin holding the perpetrators accountable to prevent their impunity.
According to Human Rights Watch, another detainee who was with Hussein Eisso and later released told Eisso’s family that authorities transferred him to the Air Force Intelligence Branch in the Mazzeh district of Damascus in December 2012. He also reported that when he last saw Hussein, he was suffering from partial paralysis. A doctor who examined Hussein in prison diagnosed him with nerve damage in his back.
Activist and former detainee Shibal Ibrahim wrote on his personal page that he met Eisso at the regime’s Air Force Intelligence Branch in Deir Ezzor province, where Eisso was blindfolded and standing on his feet. They were then transported handcuffed in a private vehicle to Damascus under heavy guard, where they were insulted and beaten by regime guards along the way.
(Source: SOC’s Media Department)
