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Iraqis return home 'in thousands' ... Riad Seif, has been arrested in Syria, local human rights groups say.
He was reportedly detained for attending a meeting of supporters of democratic reform in Syria.
The arrest brings to 11 the number opposition activists detained since December, reports say.
Syria does not usually comment on such arrests. Human rights groups say Syria holds of hundreds political prisoners, some without charge or trial.
Mr Seif, who suffers from prostate cancer, had already been banned from leaving Syria for medical treatment, a restriction he criticised as a "slow death sentence".
(BBC)
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