Razan Ghazzawi is a Syrian-Palestinian blogger, media officer at the Syrian Center for Media and Freedom of Expression, and prominent human rights activist. On 4 December 2011, Ghazzawi was arrested by Syrian immigration police at the border with Jordan while attempting to attend a press-freedom forum in Amman. She was held incommunicado and transferred to Adra Women’s Prison in Damascus, where she faced charges of incitement, spreading false information, and undermining national sentiment, crimes that carry a potential sentence of up to fifteen years’ imprisonment. She was released on bail on 19 December 2011, though the charges remained pending and she was prohibited from leaving the country (“released on bail” but still under legal constraints). During a raid on SCM’s offices in Damascus on 16 February 2012, Ghazzawi was arrested again alongside thirteen colleagues, including Mazen Darwish. She was released two days later on 18 February 2012 but remained under travel restrictions and obliged to report to authorities. In recognition of her courageous activism, she received the “Human Rights Defenders at Risk” award from Front Line Defenders in June 2012 and was included in the BBC’s “100 Women” in 2013. She fled the country after her arrests.