KURDWATCH, June 27, 2011—On June 23, 2011, the investigating judge in al-Qamishli ruled that the attorney and politician Sabri Kanju Mirza will be released from custody. The charges filed against him for participation in a dissident demonstration and membership in an illegal organization were dropped. Following his arrest in al-Qamishli, Mirza was held in the al-Qamischli, al-Hasaka, Dayr az-Zaur and ʾAdra prisons, as well as in the Political Security Directorate’s remand prison in Damascus (al-Fayhaʾ). [Further information on the case]