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Syria: web campaign to free jailed artist Youssef Abdelke
An online campaign has been launched in Syria calling for the release of jailed artist Youssef Abdelke. According to his friends and family who have launched a Facebook campaign, the 62 year old internationally acclaimed artist was arrested last Thursday at a security checkpoint in the port city of Tartus.
The artist and dissident had just signed a petition started by Syrian academics and artists calling for a peaceful and political solution to the conflict in the country that has now been raging for over two years. The document demands the ouster of Bashar al-Assad and a transition to a democratic system with an interim government under UN supervision.
A communist activist from the Christian community, Youssef Abdelke has spent a lot of his life challenging the Damascus regime. His political activities earned him two years in prison and upon release in 1981 he sought exile in France before finally returning to his country in 2005, where he is now relating the tragedy of what is happening in Syria and to his people, through his artwork.
His arrest has been widely condemned in the artistic and cultural circles. Web users have been using his work and style for inspiration, creating their own pieces to show solidarity with the jailed artist, as many have been expressing fears for his safety on social networks.... Go on reading on our web site.
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