Syrian Blogger Sentenced to Three Years in Jail

blind biker writes "The AP reports (via the Herald Tribune) of Tarek Bayassi, a 24-year old Syrian blogger sentenced to three years in jail for 'undermining the prestige of the state and weakening national morale.' The original sentence was six years but it was commuted on appeal. Apparently, this isn't an isolated case in Syria."

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Re:American jailed for setting up satellites

[halivar]

Okay, Br00tus... show us on the doll where the bad jooz touched you...

Re:American jailed for setting up satellites

[urcreepyneighbor]

...when the Zionists burned down their homes in Palestine and forced them. Those damn Jews again, right?

Re:somebody should explain the court

[mapkinase]

The case of Syria is the case of the country run by secularist apostates. It is amazing how isolated Syria is. It is despised by Muslims for secularism and it is despised by the West for lack of democracy.

Despite their despise of the leadership, Muslims reluctantly side with Syria on the matter of resistance to Western neocolonialism in the form of globalization and democracy and to Western colonialism in the form of "Israel".

Neocons who chant "Syria next" in their thinky-tanky gatherings, should be warned by the case of Iraq, where the dismissal of the secularist autocrat leader opposing to the West lead to the weak country where practically every faction is opposing democracy and Western ideology in general and formally follows Wester ideological pressure only not to lose cash support from their masters.

In chess, this situation is called zugzwang - the necessity to make a move from a variety of choices each of them leading to the situation worse than present. The only difference here is that there is another choice - radical change in their neo- and plain vanilla colonialist policy by removing their armed forced from the region and stop supporting "Israel".