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May 3, 2011

Syria Intellectuals, Activists Go Into Hiding As Security Forces Crack Down 
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The Guardian newspaper reports scores of Syria's most prominent
intellectuals and activists have gone into hiding as government forces
continue to carry out raids and arrests across the country. Two former
guests of Democracy Now! are now in hiding: Haitham al-Maleh and Razan
Zeitouneh, both prominent Syrian human rights attorneys. Human rights
organizations estimate the Syrian authorities have detained more than
7,000 people since protests began in mid-March. About 600 people have
been killed. Meanwhile, a journalist with Al Jazeera named Dorothy
Parvaz has been missing since Friday. Parvaz is an American, Canadian
and Iranian citizen. She used to work at the Seattle Post-Intelligencer
and was a Nieman fellow at Harvard University.



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