Urgent Action

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*Urgent Action*

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* Syria: A mother and her daughter arbitrary arrested while participating
in a peaceful gathering to condemn the Houla massacre*

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On May, 27th, 2012 Lina Mamoun Mhayneh and her daughter Nouran Algamian
were arrested by a group of armed men wearing plain clothes in Altalyani
Square in Damascus.


The arrest occurred while the 2 women were participating in a peaceful
sit-in to express their condemnation of the Massacre which happened in Houla,
near Homs on May, 25th 2012 It is believed that the political security
forces are the one who are responsible about the arrest as Marwa Algamian,
Nouran's sister, insisted.


Nouran Algamian, born in 1992, is a university student who lives in
Muhajreen, Damascus she is single. Lina Mhayneh, her mother was born in
1964, she is housewife and lives also in Muhajreen, Damascus. Lina suffers
from high blood Pressure, bones losses, and inflammation of the nerves.


It is worth mentioning that her oldest daughter Marwa Algamian, born in
1985, was arrested twice: the first time on March 15th, 2011 for twelve
days and the second time was on September 30th, 2011 and she was released
on October, 6th, 2011. After that, she had to flee Syria.


We are highly concerned about the psychological and physical well-being of
Lina Mhayneh and her daughter Nouran Algamian who are under high risk of
torture, a common practice in the detention centers of the different Syrian
security apparatus including the political security branch.