KURDWATCH, May 14, 2011—The Military Intelligence Service in al-Qamishli released ʿAbdulkarim Sabri ʿUmar (b. 1961, married, three children) from custody on May 10, 2011. ʿUmar, an administrator for the General Council of the Kurdish Democratic Alliance in Syria, as well as a member of the Damascus Declaration, had been arrested for participating in a dissident demonstration in al-Qamishli on May 6, 2011.