KURDWATCH, June 16, 2011—On June 13, 2011, members of the Political Security Directorate in al-Qamishli arrested the attorney and politician Sabri Kanju Mirza (b. 1950, married, nine schildren). Mirza is a member of the politburo of the Kurdish Union Party in Syria (Yekîtî). Prior to his arrest, Mirza had participated in a dissident demonstration in al-Qamishli.