Barack Obama actually said...

We call on the Syrian government to meet its responsibilities under the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and to end its practice of arbitrary arrests and detention.

Context

Statement by NSC Spokesman Mike Hammer on Syrian Convictions of Human Rights Activists

07/03/2010

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