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What do Syrian secular intellectuals say?

What do Syrian secular intellectuals say?

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 […]

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Summary killings in secret ISIS detention centres

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 […]

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Syria: ‘A cemetery for journalists’

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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Latest News from Syria – 16 December 2013

– Syrian regime bombs wreck havoc on civilian areas in Aleppo – Whereabouts of kidnapped human rights activists still unknown SYRIAN REGIME BOMBS WRECK HAVOC ON CIVILIAN AREAS IN ALEPPO Syrian regime forces yesterday launched a horrific campaign of bombardment on civilian areas outside of the regime’s […]

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