Samira Khalil is a Syrian human rights activist and former political detainee. She was arrested in 1987 for her opposition to the regime of Hafez al-Assad and was detained until 1991. In the early 2010s, she became actively involved in the Syrian revolution, co-founding the Violations Documentation Center in Syria and establishing several women’s centres in the suburbs of Damascus. On 9 December 2013, Samira Khalil was abducted in Douma, along with her colleagues Razan Zeitouneh, Wael Hamada, and Nazem Hammadi. The group, known as the “Douma Four,” was reportedly kidnapped by armed men, with suspicions pointing to the Islamist group Jaysh al-Islam, although the group denied involvement. Their whereabouts remain unknown, and their fate is uncertain.