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Syrian politician
Marwan Habash
(
Arabic
:
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; born in 1938) is a
Syrian
former politician and writer. He was a member of the Regional Command of the
Baath Party
in Syria and Minister of Industry in the government of
Salah Jadid
. Following a successful coup d'etat against Jadid's leadership in 1970, Habash was imprisoned along with others perceived to be Jadid loyalists. One of the world's longest-held
political prisoners
, he was released in 1993.
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He has since become a writer and public analyst.
Early career
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Born in
Jubata ez-Zeit
in the
Golan Heights
, Habash was a member of the Regional Command for the Ba'ath Party between August 1965 and November 1970.
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Habash also served as the Minister of Front Line Villages Affairs and the Minister of Industry in the government of
Salah Jadid
.
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When the Ba'ath Party split, Habash belonged to the faction that remained loyal to the National Command based in
Iraq
.
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Imprisonment
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When followers of then-Defense Minister
Hafez al-Assad
launched a
coup d'etat
against Jadid's leadership of the government in 1970, Jadid and his loyalists (among whose number Habash was counted), known as the "February 23 Movement", were imprisoned in November and December of that year in
al-Mezze military prison
in
Damascus
.
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Over the course of his 23-year detention, Habash was
tortured
by some of his former party colleagues, including
Naji Jamil
,
'Adnan Dabbagh
,
'Ali al-Madani
, and
Ali Duba
. He was released by order of President Hafez al-Assad in 1993.
[7]
Writings and public analyses
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Habash published more than 50 articles, covering some 300 pages, that detailed his experiences as a political prisoner, and covered part of the history of the Ba'ath movement in Syria prior to his imprisonment in
Kulluna Shuraka' fi al-Watan
, and other Arabic-language media, between 2002 and 2009. Among these articles were:
Harakat 23 Shubat… al-Dawa'i wa al-Asbab
("The 23 February Movement, its Motives and Reasons"),
Muhawalat 'Usyan al-Ra'id Salim Hatum fi al-Suwayda' Yawm 8 Aylul 1966
("The Revolt Attempt of Major Salim Hatum in al-Suwayda' on 8 September 1966"), and
Harb Huzayran: al-Muqaddimat wa al-Waqa'i
("The June War: its Preludes and Facts").
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In 2002, Habash was summoned for questioning by Syrian
intelligence agents
after publishing an article calling for the strengthening of
civil society
in Syria.
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