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FreeBassel Campaign
Bassel Khartabil was a Syrian-Palestinian human rights activist and open-software developer. In 2012 he was detained by the Syrian regime. An international campaign for his release was led by Noura Ghazi, his wife and fellow human rights activist. In this […]
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Families For Freedom
The Families for Freedom officially launched in February 2017 at the Syrian peace talks in Geneva. Along with other Syrian civil society organisations, we’d been trying for years to have an impact on the issue of detention and enforced disappearance. […]
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Freedom Bus
NOTE: Read the ‘Families For Freedom’ case study for background on the movement’s work. The Freedom Bus began its journey in October 2017. With the Syrian peace talks stalled, there were few possible moments to generate public pressure and media […]
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SNHR data and reports
The Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) was founded in June 2011 by Fadel Abdul Ghany. The aim of the organisation was to detail human rights violations during the Syrian conflict, something the group has done ever since. Using open-source […]
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Planet Syria
In 2016, the whole world was talking about ISIS. The extremist group was targeting civilians the world over, and what people knew of Syria was that it was home to this terrorist group that had the capital of its so-called […]
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Bellingcat
Bellingcat is an investigative journalism website set up by the British citizen journalist and blogger Eliot Higgins. It began with Higgins combing through videos of the Syrian conflict and identifying the weapons being used in them, something that saw him […]
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Led By Donkeys
Led by Donkeys started off as a campaign against Brexit by four friends, including the former founder of The Syria Campaign, James Sadri. The group wanted to highlight the hypocrisy of politicians calling for the UK to leave the European […]