Amer matar عامر مطر
@amermatar.bsky.social
Syrian journalist, filmmaker, director of the ISIS Prisons Museum @alshare media foundation. director of Syria Mobile Film Festival (2013-2018).
https://isisprisons.museum
https://isisprisons.museum
I recently spoke with @Daraj_media about memory, justice, and the long road from detention and exile to return.
I shared a glimpse of my recent arrest in Syria, and the continuing risks faced by journalists and human rights defenders there.
🎥 Watch here: youtu.be/xZP5_QWO4H0
#Syria #Justice
I shared a glimpse of my recent arrest in Syria, and the continuing risks faced by journalists and human rights defenders there.
🎥 Watch here: youtu.be/xZP5_QWO4H0
#Syria #Justice
عامر مطر: "أنا عايش بين السجون"
YouTube video by Daraj Media
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October 17, 2025 at 9:28 AM
I recently spoke with @Daraj_media about memory, justice, and the long road from detention and exile to return.
I shared a glimpse of my recent arrest in Syria, and the continuing risks faced by journalists and human rights defenders there.
🎥 Watch here: youtu.be/xZP5_QWO4H0
#Syria #Justice
I shared a glimpse of my recent arrest in Syria, and the continuing risks faced by journalists and human rights defenders there.
🎥 Watch here: youtu.be/xZP5_QWO4H0
#Syria #Justice
We’re excited to launch the Prisons Museum Foundation website: www.prisons.museum/en
A platform dedicated to documenting prisons, preserving memory, and amplifying survivors’ voices.
#PrisonsMuseum #Memory #Justice #HumanRights
A platform dedicated to documenting prisons, preserving memory, and amplifying survivors’ voices.
#PrisonsMuseum #Memory #Justice #HumanRights
September 1, 2025 at 5:21 PM
We’re excited to launch the Prisons Museum Foundation website: www.prisons.museum/en
A platform dedicated to documenting prisons, preserving memory, and amplifying survivors’ voices.
#PrisonsMuseum #Memory #Justice #HumanRights
A platform dedicated to documenting prisons, preserving memory, and amplifying survivors’ voices.
#PrisonsMuseum #Memory #Justice #HumanRights
عن متحف سجون سوريا، مقابلة مع فريق العمل من داخل سجن صيدنايا. على موقع الجمهورية.
متحف سجون سوريا: رواية الحكاية رقمياً | Syria Prisons Museum: A Digitized Story
YouTube video by Al-Jumhuriya الجمهورية
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August 31, 2025 at 11:03 AM
عن متحف سجون سوريا، مقابلة مع فريق العمل من داخل سجن صيدنايا. على موقع الجمهورية.
🎙️ With DW’s Studio Al-Hadath, I spoke about the ISIS Prisons Museum and its largest file — Hisba Diwan: thousands of detainees, dozens of prisons, and years of investigations & survivor testimonies.
🔗 www.dw.com/ar/audio-736...
#ISISPrisonsMuseum #Justice #HumanRights #Syria #Iraq
🔗 www.dw.com/ar/audio-736...
#ISISPrisonsMuseum #Justice #HumanRights #Syria #Iraq
متحف داعش.. توثيق للجرائم وتذكير بالضحايا – DW – 2025/8/13
متحف سجون داعش، مشروع توثيقي لجرائم وانتهاكات تنظيم الدولة الإسلامية، يضم صورا وشهادات وتحقيقات ومعارض وجولات افتراضية، توثق الفظائع وتذكر بالضحايا. فما أهمية مثل هذا المشروع لتحقيق العدالة وإنصاف الض...
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August 14, 2025 at 6:40 PM
🎙️ With DW’s Studio Al-Hadath, I spoke about the ISIS Prisons Museum and its largest file — Hisba Diwan: thousands of detainees, dozens of prisons, and years of investigations & survivor testimonies.
🔗 www.dw.com/ar/audio-736...
#ISISPrisonsMuseum #Justice #HumanRights #Syria #Iraq
🔗 www.dw.com/ar/audio-736...
#ISISPrisonsMuseum #Justice #HumanRights #Syria #Iraq
🏚 Once a traditional home in Mosul’s Old City, #ISIS turned it into a Hisba prison.
Our 3D reconstruction took 3 years of work:
📜 1,000+ documents analyzed
🗣️ 7 survivors from this prison interviewed
🗣️ Dozens from other Hisba prisons in Mosul
Walk through:
🔗 www.isisprisons.museum/en/sites/pri...
Our 3D reconstruction took 3 years of work:
📜 1,000+ documents analyzed
🗣️ 7 survivors from this prison interviewed
🗣️ Dozens from other Hisba prisons in Mosul
Walk through:
🔗 www.isisprisons.museum/en/sites/pri...
August 14, 2025 at 11:45 AM
🏚 Once a traditional home in Mosul’s Old City, #ISIS turned it into a Hisba prison.
Our 3D reconstruction took 3 years of work:
📜 1,000+ documents analyzed
🗣️ 7 survivors from this prison interviewed
🗣️ Dozens from other Hisba prisons in Mosul
Walk through:
🔗 www.isisprisons.museum/en/sites/pri...
Our 3D reconstruction took 3 years of work:
📜 1,000+ documents analyzed
🗣️ 7 survivors from this prison interviewed
🗣️ Dozens from other Hisba prisons in Mosul
Walk through:
🔗 www.isisprisons.museum/en/sites/pri...
Leaked CCTV from Suwayda Hospital (July 16, 2025) shows gov. forces shelling the building, assaulting staff, and executing civilians — one killer wore an ISIS patch.
We’re investigating these crimes just as we did ISIS & Assad crimes. Justice must be universal.
#Suwayda #JusticeForSyria #HumanRights
We’re investigating these crimes just as we did ISIS & Assad crimes. Justice must be universal.
#Suwayda #JusticeForSyria #HumanRights
August 10, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Leaked CCTV from Suwayda Hospital (July 16, 2025) shows gov. forces shelling the building, assaulting staff, and executing civilians — one killer wore an ISIS patch.
We’re investigating these crimes just as we did ISIS & Assad crimes. Justice must be universal.
#Suwayda #JusticeForSyria #HumanRights
We’re investigating these crimes just as we did ISIS & Assad crimes. Justice must be universal.
#Suwayda #JusticeForSyria #HumanRights
Yusuf Al-Labbad was not killed in a vacuum.
His death is a direct result of unchecked crimes, official lies, and a system built on impunity.
Every crime we fail to confront becomes permission for the next.
#JusticeForYusuf
#CoastalMassacres
#Syria
#EndImpunity
#NoJusticeNoPeace
His death is a direct result of unchecked crimes, official lies, and a system built on impunity.
Every crime we fail to confront becomes permission for the next.
#JusticeForYusuf
#CoastalMassacres
#Syria
#EndImpunity
#NoJusticeNoPeace
July 30, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Yusuf Al-Labbad was not killed in a vacuum.
His death is a direct result of unchecked crimes, official lies, and a system built on impunity.
Every crime we fail to confront becomes permission for the next.
#JusticeForYusuf
#CoastalMassacres
#Syria
#EndImpunity
#NoJusticeNoPeace
His death is a direct result of unchecked crimes, official lies, and a system built on impunity.
Every crime we fail to confront becomes permission for the next.
#JusticeForYusuf
#CoastalMassacres
#Syria
#EndImpunity
#NoJusticeNoPeace
Yusuf Al-Labbad walked into the Umayyad Mosque alive — and left as a corpse.
The official story? He “hit his head on hard objects” by himself in a guarded room.
No cameras. No witnesses. No medical report.
This wasn’t suicide.
It’s state violence — again.
#JusticeForYusuf
#Syria
#EndImpunity
The official story? He “hit his head on hard objects” by himself in a guarded room.
No cameras. No witnesses. No medical report.
This wasn’t suicide.
It’s state violence — again.
#JusticeForYusuf
#Syria
#EndImpunity
July 30, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Yusuf Al-Labbad walked into the Umayyad Mosque alive — and left as a corpse.
The official story? He “hit his head on hard objects” by himself in a guarded room.
No cameras. No witnesses. No medical report.
This wasn’t suicide.
It’s state violence — again.
#JusticeForYusuf
#Syria
#EndImpunity
The official story? He “hit his head on hard objects” by himself in a guarded room.
No cameras. No witnesses. No medical report.
This wasn’t suicide.
It’s state violence — again.
#JusticeForYusuf
#Syria
#EndImpunity
Civil resistance is possible—even under ISIS.
We spent months working on this investigation about Raqqa’s nonviolent resistance during ISIS rule. It’s now live on:
👉 www.isisprisons.museum/en/investiga...
Authoritarian terror doesn’t erase the will to resist.
It just makes resistance harder.
We spent months working on this investigation about Raqqa’s nonviolent resistance during ISIS rule. It’s now live on:
👉 www.isisprisons.museum/en/investiga...
Authoritarian terror doesn’t erase the will to resist.
It just makes resistance harder.
ISIS Prisons Museum
The ISIS Prisons Museum is a virtual museum space that uses state-of-the-art digital technology to exhibit forensic investigations into crimes committed by ISIS. It combines online digital storytellin...
www.isisprisons.museum
July 19, 2025 at 7:19 AM
Civil resistance is possible—even under ISIS.
We spent months working on this investigation about Raqqa’s nonviolent resistance during ISIS rule. It’s now live on:
👉 www.isisprisons.museum/en/investiga...
Authoritarian terror doesn’t erase the will to resist.
It just makes resistance harder.
We spent months working on this investigation about Raqqa’s nonviolent resistance during ISIS rule. It’s now live on:
👉 www.isisprisons.museum/en/investiga...
Authoritarian terror doesn’t erase the will to resist.
It just makes resistance harder.
Silence enables the crime.
If the current authorities in Damascus don’t act now, they are no different from those before them.
And they are opening the door to another forever war.
If the current authorities in Damascus don’t act now, they are no different from those before them.
And they are opening the door to another forever war.
July 19, 2025 at 3:46 AM
Silence enables the crime.
If the current authorities in Damascus don’t act now, they are no different from those before them.
And they are opening the door to another forever war.
If the current authorities in Damascus don’t act now, they are no different from those before them.
And they are opening the door to another forever war.
Hama 1982 → Sweida 2025
The Assad dictatorship began with a massacre.
Today, a new one is forming in Sweida.
If it’s not stopped now, we may be entering a new era of endless, blood-soaked rule—this time by warlords and “de facto” authorities, not just one man.
The Assad dictatorship began with a massacre.
Today, a new one is forming in Sweida.
If it’s not stopped now, we may be entering a new era of endless, blood-soaked rule—this time by warlords and “de facto” authorities, not just one man.
July 19, 2025 at 3:45 AM
Hama 1982 → Sweida 2025
The Assad dictatorship began with a massacre.
Today, a new one is forming in Sweida.
If it’s not stopped now, we may be entering a new era of endless, blood-soaked rule—this time by warlords and “de facto” authorities, not just one man.
The Assad dictatorship began with a massacre.
Today, a new one is forming in Sweida.
If it’s not stopped now, we may be entering a new era of endless, blood-soaked rule—this time by warlords and “de facto” authorities, not just one man.
What’s happening in Sweida is heartbreaking.
A place that once stood with dignity and defiance is now being dragged into a dirty war of revenge, tribalism, and silence.
We fought for freedom, dignity, and justice—not for this.
A place that once stood with dignity and defiance is now being dragged into a dirty war of revenge, tribalism, and silence.
We fought for freedom, dignity, and justice—not for this.
July 18, 2025 at 11:15 PM
What’s happening in Sweida is heartbreaking.
A place that once stood with dignity and defiance is now being dragged into a dirty war of revenge, tribalism, and silence.
We fought for freedom, dignity, and justice—not for this.
A place that once stood with dignity and defiance is now being dragged into a dirty war of revenge, tribalism, and silence.
We fought for freedom, dignity, and justice—not for this.
After analyzing thousands of ISIS documents, we published a new investigation on the Hisba Diwan — the system of religious policing under ISIS.
How it worked, how it justified repression, and how it helped build the illusion of a state.
🔗 isisprisons.museum/en/investiga...
How it worked, how it justified repression, and how it helped build the illusion of a state.
🔗 isisprisons.museum/en/investiga...
ISIS Prisons Museum
The ISIS Prisons Museum is a virtual museum space that uses state-of-the-art digital technology to exhibit forensic investigations into crimes committed by ISIS. It combines online digital storytellin...
isisprisons.museum
July 13, 2025 at 11:32 AM
After analyzing thousands of ISIS documents, we published a new investigation on the Hisba Diwan — the system of religious policing under ISIS.
How it worked, how it justified repression, and how it helped build the illusion of a state.
🔗 isisprisons.museum/en/investiga...
How it worked, how it justified repression, and how it helped build the illusion of a state.
🔗 isisprisons.museum/en/investiga...
Today is my brother Mohammed Nour Matar’s birthday.
He was taken by ISIS in 2013 and we’ve heard nothing since.
We searched every prison, every village, every wall.
We built a museum for him.
And we will keep searching.
Because he’s brave. Because he matters. Because he’s my brother.
He was taken by ISIS in 2013 and we’ve heard nothing since.
We searched every prison, every village, every wall.
We built a museum for him.
And we will keep searching.
Because he’s brave. Because he matters. Because he’s my brother.
July 8, 2025 at 6:34 AM
Today is my brother Mohammed Nour Matar’s birthday.
He was taken by ISIS in 2013 and we’ve heard nothing since.
We searched every prison, every village, every wall.
We built a museum for him.
And we will keep searching.
Because he’s brave. Because he matters. Because he’s my brother.
He was taken by ISIS in 2013 and we’ve heard nothing since.
We searched every prison, every village, every wall.
We built a museum for him.
And we will keep searching.
Because he’s brave. Because he matters. Because he’s my brother.
The ISIS Prisons Museum expresses its deep sorrow over the bombing that targeted the Mar Elias Church in Damascus, claiming the lives of more than 25 civilians and injuring dozens of others.
June 23, 2025 at 2:45 PM
The ISIS Prisons Museum expresses its deep sorrow over the bombing that targeted the Mar Elias Church in Damascus, claiming the lives of more than 25 civilians and injuring dozens of others.
بجب تجريم الدعشنة في سوريا، مثل تجريم الأسدية.
June 22, 2025 at 5:48 PM
بجب تجريم الدعشنة في سوريا، مثل تجريم الأسدية.
Heartbroken by the horrific attack on St. Elias Church in Damascus. Dozens were killed and injured while praying.
My deepest condolences to the families of the victims and all members of the Syrian Christian community.
Violence against worshippers is a crime against us all.
🖤
My deepest condolences to the families of the victims and all members of the Syrian Christian community.
Violence against worshippers is a crime against us all.
🖤
June 22, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Heartbroken by the horrific attack on St. Elias Church in Damascus. Dozens were killed and injured while praying.
My deepest condolences to the families of the victims and all members of the Syrian Christian community.
Violence against worshippers is a crime against us all.
🖤
My deepest condolences to the families of the victims and all members of the Syrian Christian community.
Violence against worshippers is a crime against us all.
🖤
Frankfurt court sentences Syrian doctor Alaa Mousa to life in prison without parole for crimes against humanity, including torture, murder & sexual violence in military hospitals (2011–2012).
#Justice #Syria #FrankfurtVerdict
#Justice #Syria #FrankfurtVerdict
June 16, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Frankfurt court sentences Syrian doctor Alaa Mousa to life in prison without parole for crimes against humanity, including torture, murder & sexual violence in military hospitals (2011–2012).
#Justice #Syria #FrankfurtVerdict
#Justice #Syria #FrankfurtVerdict
Honored to speak at #NR25 on the risks & realities of investigative reporting from Syria.
I’ll share work on ISIS prisons, the Shaitat massacre, and documenting war crimes.
Join us June 13, 3PM.
More info: nr25.sched.com/event/1yzgw
#Syria #Journalism #Justice #Accountability
I’ll share work on ISIS prisons, the Shaitat massacre, and documenting war crimes.
Join us June 13, 3PM.
More info: nr25.sched.com/event/1yzgw
#Syria #Journalism #Justice #Accountability
NR25: Inside Syria: Investigative Frontlines a...
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June 12, 2025 at 6:28 AM
Honored to speak at #NR25 on the risks & realities of investigative reporting from Syria.
I’ll share work on ISIS prisons, the Shaitat massacre, and documenting war crimes.
Join us June 13, 3PM.
More info: nr25.sched.com/event/1yzgw
#Syria #Journalism #Justice #Accountability
I’ll share work on ISIS prisons, the Shaitat massacre, and documenting war crimes.
Join us June 13, 3PM.
More info: nr25.sched.com/event/1yzgw
#Syria #Journalism #Justice #Accountability
In Syria today:
Bikinis are haram, but Fadi Saqr — a war criminal behind the Tadamon massacre — is halal enough for the new government’s Peace Committee.
Welcome to the moral compass of the state.
Bikinis are haram, but Fadi Saqr — a war criminal behind the Tadamon massacre — is halal enough for the new government’s Peace Committee.
Welcome to the moral compass of the state.
June 11, 2025 at 6:58 AM
In Syria today:
Bikinis are haram, but Fadi Saqr — a war criminal behind the Tadamon massacre — is halal enough for the new government’s Peace Committee.
Welcome to the moral compass of the state.
Bikinis are haram, but Fadi Saqr — a war criminal behind the Tadamon massacre — is halal enough for the new government’s Peace Committee.
Welcome to the moral compass of the state.