Yassin al-Haj Saleh is a Syrian intellectual and writer from Ar-Raqqah. He spent 16 years of his life (1980 to 1996) in Syrian regime prisons. Saleh has been heavily involved in the Syrian revolution, writing and working alongside young activists. He was in hiding in Eastern Ghouta […]
Read more →Amnesty International has published a briefing on the “torture, flogging and summary killings … in secret prisons run by the Islamic State in Iraq and Sham (ISIS)”, an armed group linked to Al-Qaeda that controls some areas in northern Syria. Amnesty identifies seven detention facilities used by […]
Read more →Reporters Without Borders (RWB) has published a new report documenting the targeted killing, kidnapping and imprisonment of journalists around the world in 2013. Syria had the lion’s share: at least 10 journalists and 35 citizen-journalists were killed in Syria this year (out of a total of 71 […]
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