Syrians celebrated the release of civil rights activist Rita Al-Aqbani from a security prison in Damascus on Friday, The New Arab’s Arabic language sister publication Al-Araby Al-Jadeed reported.
According to the Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR), Al-Aqbani worked at the St. Ephrem Patriarchal Development Committee in Suweida and was arrested on 10 June, before being taken to an undisclosed location.