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   Published on: 5/18/2006   Last Visited: 5/18/2006

   All but one of the nine had signed a petition calling for an improvement in relations with Lebanon.
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   The editorial said it was "suspicious" that their move came as the United States was mobilizing support for a U.N. Security Council resolution calling on Syria to establish diplomatic relations with Lebanon and demarcate their common border.
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   On Wednesday, police arrested Mahmoud Issa, a former political prisoner who previously spent eight years in jail; Safwan Tayfour, a doctor active in public affairs; Khalil Hussein, a leader of the Kurdish group Al-Mustaqbal who has previously spent 12 years in prison; activist Abbas Abbas; and Khaled Khalifa, according to the Syrian Organization for Human Rights.
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   On Wednesday, police arrested Mahmoud Issa, a former political prisoner who previously spent eight years in jail; Safwan Tayfour, a doctor active in public affairs; Khalil Hussein, a leader of the Kurdish group Al-Mustaqbal who has previously spent 12 years in prison; activist Abbas Abbas; and Khaled Khalifa, according to the Syrian Organization for Human Rights.
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   The National Organization for Human Rights in Syria said the arrests were part of the largest organized campaign since the crackdown on political activists in September 2001 that ended the "Damascus Spring" which followed President Bashar Assad's taking office in 2000.
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   Relations between Lebanon and Syria plummeted after last year's assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, which many Lebanese blame on Syria.
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