Shawkat Garziddin was a Syrian author and journalist affiliated with the independent magazine Rising for Freedom. On 11 July 2017, Garziddin was sentenced in absentia
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Hussein Gharir is a Syrian human rights defender and staff member of the Syrian Center for Media and Freedom of Expression. On 16 February 2012, Gharir was arrested
Read ReportJoan Farso was a Syrian blogger and member of the Syrian Center for Media and Freedom of Expression (SCM). On 16 February 2012, Farso was arrested during a raid by Air
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Rizgar Deniz was a Kurdish journalist and field reporter. He was seriously wounded in a car-bombing attack perpetrated by two Islamic State suicide bombers on 12
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Raed Fares was a Syrian citizen-journalist, activist, and civil society leader from Kafr Nabl who founded the community-based Kafranbel Media Centre and the independent
Read ReportBarraa Bukairati is a Syrian human rights defender from Damascus. He was arrested on 30 September 2011 by the Air Force Intelligence after they raided his home and
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Mazen Darwish is a Syrian lawyer, journalist, and prominent human rights defender. He is the founder and president of the Syrian Center for Media and Freedom of
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Dr. Orouba Barakat was a distinguished Syrian human rights defender and documentary producer who had opposed the regimes of Hafez and Bashar al-Assad since the 1980s,
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Halla Barakat was a Syrian-American journalist and editor for Orient News, a Syrian opposition media outlet based in Istanbul, who, along with her mother Dr. Orouba
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