Update 1: Sami has just informed us that Rukana Hammour has been released after three hours of her kidnapping and that she was interrogated by the Syrian Security Services over a comment left on her blog. We are happy to learn she is safe and sound at home among her family.
Update 2: read Rukana's detailed post (AR) on her kidnapping and investigation here.
Yesterday I received a mail from a human rights NGO in Syria saying that Rukana Hammour has been kidnapped on the 25th. of October by six Syrian security agents at her home and again, in front of her three children.
For those who are not familiar with her case, she is the daughter of Mohammad Hammour, the deputy of Saudi Air Lines, and whose fortune disappearance appears to be suspicious. Rukana was threatened by her brothers and high ranking Syrian officials and officers to be sexually assaulted and raped if she doesn't give up her share of her father's fortune and be silent about its suspicious evaporation.
Rukana sent several letters to King Abdalla's office to expose the robbery and thievery of her father's money. As a reaction, the thieves, and for the second time, kidnapped her, threatened her demanding her withdrawal from the parliament election, and constantly putting her life in danger.
Up to this moment we do not know the whereabouts of Rukana.
Syrian bloggers, I ask you all to support this woman, these citizens, if it's not for her children then let it be for "
Spread the word!
For more informations on her case please click here.
4 comments:
is her trouble with them only with regards to the money?
if it is so, let them have the money! and there is something i didn\'t understand. have her brothers been blakcmailing her as well?
what kind of scum brothers are they? we are indeed living amongst thugs and villains..
No, it's not about the money, it's about the "thievery" of the money. It's the illegal corrupted system that is getting "normalized" in Syria.
Hammour decided to fight it back.
Golaniya I wrote about it today in my blog in the hope to expose the case to much more wider audience , it is not about the money ,I wish it was about the money , it was about some stupid reason about a commanoter ,it is so stupid , take care of yourself and watch those who comments :(
Thank you, Zeinobia, Hammour has a history with Syrian Intelligence, I don’t think it is merely about that commenter, I think they are worried about her political views and how she is openly expressing them on her blog. She writes detailed reports on very serious issues, how they threaten her to withdraw from parliament elections, how she dares to say they've stolen her father's fortune, and how she reported many times on her kidnappings. So she is being harassed to shut up really, we are witnessing a rare case, no one, neither a man or a woman, speaks of such issues in such voice as she does. Hence I think her case is exceptional. I do believe she has high ranking supporters, still, I think her voice is much needed in Syria right now.
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