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This signal of sinister hatred has reached outraged groups and individuals around the world. The Sebbagh and Saad murders have become a symbol of the struggle to free Syrian Jews. The blood of those innocent women, shed 18 years ago, was not spilled in vain...
Most of the Jews left in Syria live in Damascus and about 500 others live in Aleppo and Kamishli. The community confined to the Syrian capital resides in a ghetto, called Harate Al-Yehud ("the Jewish Quarter"), and is subject to 24-hour-a-day surveillance by the Mukhabarat, the Syrian secret police...
...Mukhabarat keeps individual files on all Syrian Jews. It taps Jews' phones, reads their mail, monitors their contracts with foreigners, restricts the sale of their property and prohibits the teaching and speaking of the Hebrew language...
...case within the Syrian Jewish community that has received the greatest international attention is that of the Swed brothers. Eli, 31, and Selim, 51, were arrested in 1987 on suspicion of traveling to Israel while abroad. For two years, Syrian officials refused to acknowledge whether the brothers were dead or alive and not until 1990 were they allowed regular visits with their families...
CERTAINLY JEWS are not the only group in Syria oppressed by Assad's iron fist. Thousands of political prisoners are held without trial, some languishing in their cells for over 20 years. A 1987 Amnesty International report identified 35 forms of torture used in Syrian prisons--cruelty that knows no sectarian or religious boundaries...