Names of some of the prisoners killed in Syrian prison riots

Published: Saturday, 5 July, 2008 @ 7:51 PM in Beirut (GMT+2) Beirut/ Damascus - At least 25 inmates were killed and many were wounded when prison authorities put down a riot staged by Islamist political prisoners in Sidnaya prison north of Damascus over poor conditions, Syrian human rights groups said. The following is a list of some of those prisoners that were killed by the Syrian police today during the riots Zakaria Affash Majd Majareesh Mahmoud Abu Rashid Abdul Baqi Khattab Ahmed Shalaq Moayyid al Ali Khalid Bilal Muhanad al-Omar Khadr Alloush Local sources stated that 400 Syrian police and inmates were taken hostage by the prison inmates The sources also that about 1500 inmates are on the roof of the building and that smoke still rising from the roof of the building Most of the inmates of the prison are politicians... [read full story]