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http://www.washingtontimes.com/world/20070510-103235-7658r.htm
“Syria jails activist for D.C. meetings”
By Betsy Pisik
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
May 11, 2007
ARTICLE SNIPPET: “DAMASCUS, Syria — A human rights activist was sentenced to 12 years in prison yesterday for meeting with Bush administration officials at the White House during a 2005 visit to Washington.
Kamal Labwani, a Syrian physician and democracy advocate, was convicted of “contacting a foreign country, passing on messages and encouraging attack against Syria,” according to local reports, which noted that a maximum sentence could have been a lifetime of hard labor.
The sentence came as President Bashar Assad warned of growing political and military instability in the Middle East in his annual address to the Syrian parliament. “