Husain Essou

Husain Essou, a human rights activist who is 59 years old, was arbitrarily detained in a raid on his home in Hasakeh on September 3, 2011. Husain is a prominent Kurdish writer well-known for promoting tolerance among Syria’s ethnic and religious communities. He is being held incommunicado, by Air Force Security, a branch notorious for ill-treatment of detainees. Join us in demanding his immediate unconditional release from arbitrary imprisonment in Syria.