Syrian Actress May Skaf Detained by Security Forces
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A prominent Syrian actress and outspoken activist against the regime of President Bashar Assad was detained on Thursday, a human rights lawyer said.
"At noon (0900 GMT) today, the security forces detained the free actress May Skaf while she was on her way home in the Mashru Dummar neighborhood" of Damascus, Anwar al-Bunni reported on Facebook.
"Skaf made a mobile phone call to her son, to tell him her identity card had been taken from her by members of the security forces at a checkpoint," Bunni told Agence France Presse.
Her mobile phone has since been switched off, he added.
Skaf's "detention... confirms that the Syrian authorities... are seeking to silence the voices of cultural and political figures, to try and give credence to their narrative that the regime is fighting terrorism", Bunni said.
Since the eruption of the uprising in March 2011, the Assad regime has claimed to be fighting "terrorism" in Syria, while denying the existence of any peaceful movement for change.
The uprising morphed into an armed insurgency after the regime unleashed a brutal crackdown on dissent.
Skaf has consistently spoken out against the regime, frequently posting criticism on her own Facebook page.
In summer 2012, she was detained for three days after taking part in a Damascus protest that became referred to as the "intellectuals' demonstration".
She is best known in Syria for her role in the television series Khan al-Harir, in which she played a strong woman who led demonstrations.
She also played the role of an activist and former detainee in the well-known theatrical work Death and the Maiden, by Chile's Ariel Dorfman.
In the play, Skaf's character meets a man she believes is her former prison guard and rapist.
17 May 2013, 17:33
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alhamdulilah the brave and honorable syrian army arrested this dangerous terrorist!
17 May 2013, 17:57
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Bashar el assads regime is just as stupid as that of other arab regimes. They give the exact fuel needed to discredit them, they make it so easy yet they don't even realize it and if someone speaks against them, these imbecilles, they accuse him or her of being against the entire country in order to make the people hate those who hate the regime. Supporters of bashar el zift use the same type of brainwashed lies that were used by supporters of qaddafi, the elton john bedouin king of jordan, the emir of qatar, al saud king etc. These idiots simply do not learn. They all use the same defence, the same style, the same propaganda.
17 May 2013, 18:00
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To give you an example of baath hypocrisy. They claim to be an arab nationalistic party but if an arab is against bashar then they curse and swear at his country and people. Even the officials don't have any zaw2 and will do the same. The syrian regime, it's representatives, it's supporters, it's army and it's mukhabarat all talk like thugs because that is what baath teaches them, just like the other dictators in the arab world have the same propaganda about themselves and their system of dictatorship.
14 December 2013, 22:59
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When I originally commented I seem to have clicked on the
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a comment is added I get 4 emails with the same comment.
Is there an easy method you can remove me from that service?
Many thanks!
