Tal Mallohi’s Imprisonment First Anniversary

Tal Mallohi was arrested on December 27th, 2009 in Syria from his home when she was only 19 years old. Mallohi is a Syrian blogger who did not do anything wrong except being a blogger in a country like Syria.

When Tal was 16 years old, she found herself interrogated by the Syrian state security in Syria for no reason according to what I understood except that she blogged. 

Allegedly she was mistreated in the security according to Syrian opposition websites. 

After being enlisted on the security watch list she was not able to join high school, thus her family had to move to Cairo so she could study in high school. 

She lived with her family in the Hadik El-Koba popular area.

According to reports on Syrian opposition websites, a security officer named "Samer Rabo’o" at the Syrian embassy in Cairo made unwanted advances toward her, which she resisted.

Again she was not recruited by the Americans nor she did spy on the embassy’s officials. She only used to study Spanish at Institutio Cervantes in Giza. In July 2009, the authorities in Syria told her family that it was ok for her to come back to Syria and study there.

Freedom for Tal 

I remember from several months ago I found a comment from a Syrian lady who claimed that a security officer made unwanted advances towards her. 

Accordingly, that officer was known for his disrespectful behaviour and corruption not to mention he existed in Egypt illegally from a diplomatic point of view. 

Tal was said to have attacked that officer and attempted to kill him in one of the reports on Pro-regime news websites. 

As a reminder, Tal was not responsible for the attack on the officer in Cairo in 2009. The incident occurred when the officer was sexually harassing an American tourist, and her companions intervened by force to stop him. 

That incident was documented officially in an Egyptian police station and unfortunately, nobody is using this to help Tal in her case. 

I understand that it is not an easy thing but the Syrian community in Egypt or at least those who are brave in Egypt should have spoken about that officer and exposed him publicly to save that poor girl, that cycle of fear should be broken.

 
If Tal were really that spy the Syrian regime portrays, why she was executed like that Mossad spy last month !!? In fact, why has not the security prosecution officially announced that Tal was spying for the Americans ?? Is the regime in Syria afraid of the Americans !!?? Well, we have relations with the Israelis and yet we announced the Kung Fu spy !!

Tal allegedly met with an independent lawyer in her jail and after the meeting, he described a very weak shaken person who admitted all the charges the regime accused her of automatically, a hard description published on the Sooryoon opposition website. Those bastards killed her from the inside !!

Up till now, we do not know why exactly she was arrested and why she is currently staying in a very cold prison cell !! Is this because she refused the sexual advances of some officer who should be punished for his actions that insult his country and his people !!?

Ironically when I searched for the name of that officer online, I found a direct mention of him in the Lebanese army's official website newspapers archive and it is not about him stalking some Lebanese girls but rather a security visit to Lebanon to meet with pro-Syrian Lebanese parties !! 

This dates back to May 2009 which means he returned back home before that !! According to Al Watan Al Arabi magazine, Lt.Rabo’o works in the external branch 279 at the Syrian state security apparatus. 

It seems that Lt.Rabo’o is the superstar of the Syrian intelligence that he is being mentioned like that  !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 

For the record, Al Watan Al Arabi is anti-Syrian anti-Iranian Pro Saudi Pro Egyptian magazine by the way and I can’t deny my amazement at that strange news.

 
I did not abandon the case of Tal Mallohi all that time nor did the Egyptian bloggers, Tal is in our thoughts and prayers.