June 1 2011
The report began with an illustration how on April 29th after Friday Prayer, people began to gather in some villages of Daraa countryside responding to inciting calls for Jihad, which were taken leverage of by armed groups, to attack the army and the police, the security forces and the citizens, moving towards the military housing compound in the Said area where Hamza al-Khateeb was martyred.
"At that time, armed members arrived blending in to the crowd and succeeded in misleading many youngsters into joining shooting at the compound's guards whose commander was martyred," said the report.
The report revealed that al-Khateeb, who was found killed in the location of the compound, still unidentified then, was transferred to hospital among the other victims.
"At a the latter part of Friday 29/4/2011, we were informed by the Coronary Department that a body of an unidentified boy was in the hospital," said Samer Abbas, the judge in charge of the case.
Abbas added that after all the medical and legal procedures were taken and once the body was identified as Hamza al-Khateeb's, it was handed over to the family of the martyr through the National Hospital in Daraa, on May 21, 2011.
Coroner Akram al-Shaar who examined al-Khateeb's body pointed out, that after the body reached the hospital on April 29th, a legal commission including the judge and the coroner came to identify the body whose name at the time was not known.
"There were not any traces of violence, resistance or torture, or any kinds of bruises, fractures, joint displacements or cuts," the coroner pointed out, indicating that the period between the medical examination and the handover of Hamza al-Khateeb's body to his family was required for the identification.
"On Friday, April 29th, I joined Hamza al-Khateeb and Mohammad Sweidan and Abdel Majeed al-Khateeb in the gathering place where we met other people from al-Mseifra and Bosra. We headed to the military residency in Saida, accompanied by armed adult men. As we reached there, some demonstrators opened fire toward the compound injuring one soldier. Later, there was a heavy fire exchange and we had to hide behind trees," al-Khateeb said.
He added that Hamza al-Khateeb was among the injured people. "He fell to the ground and I didn't know what happened to him. I fled with Abdel Majeed al-Khateeb and Mohammad Sweidan."
President Bashar al-Assad met the family of Hamza al-Khateeb on Tuesday afternoon, and offered them condolences before discussing the death issue in detail.
The father of the martyr said that President al-Assad was so "gentle and kind", adding that the President promised to fulfill the people's demands, and make necessary reforms that will serve the interests of the Syrian citizens.
For his part, the martyr's uncle said we received the body from Daraa National Hospital, stressing what has been found is all proven and based on the coroner's report written at the office of the Attorney General.He added that President al-Assad during the meeting stressed the formation of a committee to investigate the incident to reach the truth.
The Professor of media psychology at Damascus University, Majdi Fares, said that the incident of al-Khateeb's death was used by some satellite channels and news media in a biased way, in the purpose to mislead, through spreading lies and fabrications.
Concluding the report, the Syrian TV said the information which has been presented shows the fact that Hamza al-Khateeb never in resent time has been jailed or arrested.
R. Raslan/H. Said
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