Kate Perica
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6/ Now is the time to say #WeLead. Join over 330 Syrian women and their allies in demanding representation and leadership in Syria’s future. Share their message widely or sign the letter to UN Secretary-General António Guterres yourself: shorturl.at/ZDekn
مع نساء سوريا With Syria's women
تدعوكم-ن منظمة حملة من أجل سوريا للتوقيع على هذه الرسالة لدعم نساء سوريا في مطالبهن. التوقيع مفتوح لنساء سوريا ورجالها ولكل من يرغب بدعمهن.
The Syria Campaign is inviting you to sign this letter to su...
shorturl.at
December 20, 2024 at 2:20 PM
6/ Now is the time to say #WeLead. Join over 330 Syrian women and their allies in demanding representation and leadership in Syria’s future. Share their message widely or sign the letter to UN Secretary-General António Guterres yourself: shorturl.at/ZDekn
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5/The letter to Antonio Guterres,UN Secretary-General, makes one thing clear:Syria’s women must lead.Their vision for an inclusive, democratic Syria must be at the heart of the political transition and constitutional process.Anything less will fail to deliver peace and freedom for all Syria’s people
December 20, 2024 at 2:19 PM
5/The letter to Antonio Guterres,UN Secretary-General, makes one thing clear:Syria’s women must lead.Their vision for an inclusive, democratic Syria must be at the heart of the political transition and constitutional process.Anything less will fail to deliver peace and freedom for all Syria’s people
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4/ Women and girls in Syria have faced relentless violations: torture, detention, patriarchal laws, and violence in their own homes. Despite this, Syrian women have led the fight for justice, securing war crimes trials in Europe and even a UN institution for the missing.
December 20, 2024 at 2:17 PM
4/ Women and girls in Syria have faced relentless violations: torture, detention, patriarchal laws, and violence in their own homes. Despite this, Syrian women have led the fight for justice, securing war crimes trials in Europe and even a UN institution for the missing.
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3/ For nearly 14 years, Syria’s women have stood on the frontlines—protesting, advocating, and campaigning for justice, dignity, and freedom. But now, as Syria enters a critical transition, women are being sidelined by the HTS-appointed governing body. This cannot stand.
December 20, 2024 at 2:17 PM
3/ For nearly 14 years, Syria’s women have stood on the frontlines—protesting, advocating, and campaigning for justice, dignity, and freedom. But now, as Syria enters a critical transition, women are being sidelined by the HTS-appointed governing body. This cannot stand.
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2/ Signatories include Syrian feminist legal advisor Joumana Seif, Syrian writer Rasha Omran, Syrian actor and activist Fares Helou, Syrian feminist leader Ghalia Rahhal, alongside English actress Lena Heady.
December 20, 2024 at 2:16 PM
2/ Signatories include Syrian feminist legal advisor Joumana Seif, Syrian writer Rasha Omran, Syrian actor and activist Fares Helou, Syrian feminist leader Ghalia Rahhal, alongside English actress Lena Heady.
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1/ 🚨 Over 350 of Syria’s women and their allies have issued a powerful call to put women at the heart of the Syrian political transition. Their message is #WeLead. Women must shape Syria's future at this critical moment: diary.thesyriacampaign.org/women-must-s...
Letter from Syria’s women to the UN: We must shape the future of Syria
diary.thesyriacampaign.org
December 20, 2024 at 2:16 PM
1/ 🚨 Over 350 of Syria’s women and their allies have issued a powerful call to put women at the heart of the Syrian political transition. Their message is #WeLead. Women must shape Syria's future at this critical moment: diary.thesyriacampaign.org/women-must-s...
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Adding: Jaber Baker's @newlinesmag.bsky.social piece on his two-year detention by Syrian military intelligence (including in the Palestine Branch & Saydnaya) after a friend shared photocopies from a controversial book with him.
Baker co-wrote the book "Syrian Gulag: Inside Assad's Prison System"
Baker co-wrote the book "Syrian Gulag: Inside Assad's Prison System"
How I Survived a Syrian Gulag
A political inmate recounts his daily life during his two-plus years in one of the regime’s notorious prisons
newlinesmag.com
December 9, 2024 at 3:14 PM
Adding: Jaber Baker's @newlinesmag.bsky.social piece on his two-year detention by Syrian military intelligence (including in the Palestine Branch & Saydnaya) after a friend shared photocopies from a controversial book with him.
Baker co-wrote the book "Syrian Gulag: Inside Assad's Prison System"
Baker co-wrote the book "Syrian Gulag: Inside Assad's Prison System"
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Adding: "The Syrian Government Detention System as a Tool of Violent Repression." UN report that draws on "over 300 witness interviews, medical forensic evidence and the Syrian Government’s own documentation." Covers March 2011 onward, aimed at supporting justice efforts.
The Syrian Government Detention System as a Tool of Violent Repression – IIIM
iiim.un.org
December 9, 2024 at 1:55 AM
Adding: "The Syrian Government Detention System as a Tool of Violent Repression." UN report that draws on "over 300 witness interviews, medical forensic evidence and the Syrian Government’s own documentation." Covers March 2011 onward, aimed at supporting justice efforts.
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Some ppl being freed from these prisons/gulags/dungeons were incarcerated before the Syrian Civil War. There were prisoners from the Lebanese Civil War/Syrian occupation of Lebanon in Tadmor in 2015. The Assad regime imprisoned unimaginable numbers of Syrians, but also Lebanese & Palestinians 6/6
December 8, 2024 at 4:21 PM
Some ppl being freed from these prisons/gulags/dungeons were incarcerated before the Syrian Civil War. There were prisoners from the Lebanese Civil War/Syrian occupation of Lebanon in Tadmor in 2015. The Assad regime imprisoned unimaginable numbers of Syrians, but also Lebanese & Palestinians 6/6
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I had this New Yorker piece by Ben Taub up, so I'm posting it as well, but to be clear: there is other excellent reporting on all of this, much of it from journalists/analysts from the region (will try to post more later). People were doing incredibly brave work on this a decade ago and more 5/6
Exposing Assad’s War Crimes
The top-secret documents that tie the Syrian regime to mass torture and killings.
www.newyorker.com
December 8, 2024 at 4:21 PM
I had this New Yorker piece by Ben Taub up, so I'm posting it as well, but to be clear: there is other excellent reporting on all of this, much of it from journalists/analysts from the region (will try to post more later). People were doing incredibly brave work on this a decade ago and more 5/6
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"The Shell: Memoirs of a Hidden Observer" by Mustafa Khalifa. A novel/fictionalized memoir of incarceration in Tadmor (which was outside of Palmyra) based on the author's 12 years as a political prisoner. Khalifa has been referred to as Syria's Sozhenitsyn.
It is devastating. 4/6
It is devastating. 4/6
The Shell: Memoirs of a Hidden Observer by Mustafa Khalifa
The work of a moder-day Sozhenitsyn that exposes acts of violence and brutality committed by the Syrian regime. This compelling first novel is the astonishing story of a Syrian political prisoner of c...
www.middleeastbooks.com
December 8, 2024 at 4:21 PM
"The Shell: Memoirs of a Hidden Observer" by Mustafa Khalifa. A novel/fictionalized memoir of incarceration in Tadmor (which was outside of Palmyra) based on the author's 12 years as a political prisoner. Khalifa has been referred to as Syria's Sozhenitsyn.
It is devastating. 4/6
It is devastating. 4/6
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@amnesty.org's & @forensicarchi.bsky.social's painstakingly assembled interactive feature on the prison, based on the testimony of people who survived it.
Associated report: "Human Slaughterhouse" www.amnesty.org/en/documents...
3/6
Associated report: "Human Slaughterhouse" www.amnesty.org/en/documents...
3/6
Saydnaya, Inside a Syrian Torture Prison
For the first time ever you can see inside Saydnaya, one of the world’s most terrifying prisons.
saydnaya.amnesty.org
December 8, 2024 at 4:21 PM
@amnesty.org's & @forensicarchi.bsky.social's painstakingly assembled interactive feature on the prison, based on the testimony of people who survived it.
Associated report: "Human Slaughterhouse" www.amnesty.org/en/documents...
3/6
Associated report: "Human Slaughterhouse" www.amnesty.org/en/documents...
3/6
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"If the Dead Could Speak," @hrw.org's report on "Ceasar" photographs, 50K+ images of of dead prisoners/murdered opposition as well as state forces & crime scene records (28K+ being of ppl the state killed in custody). Images smuggled out of Syria by a fmr Military Police forensic photographer 2/6
If the Dead Could Speak
This report lays out new evidence regarding the authenticity of what are known as the Caesar photographs, identifies a number of the victims, and highlights some of the key causes of death. Human Righ...
www.hrw.org
December 8, 2024 at 4:21 PM
"If the Dead Could Speak," @hrw.org's report on "Ceasar" photographs, 50K+ images of of dead prisoners/murdered opposition as well as state forces & crime scene records (28K+ being of ppl the state killed in custody). Images smuggled out of Syria by a fmr Military Police forensic photographer 2/6
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Basic background resources for those who not familiar with Saydnaya (also Sednaya/Seydnaya/Sadnaya) & other notorious Syrian prisons such as Tadmor (destroyed 2015), Mazzeh (Air Force Intelligence/Mazzeh Mil Airport), & Qism Falastin (Palestine Branch/Branch 235).
The sheer magnitude of this. 1/6
The sheer magnitude of this. 1/6
The absolute horrors of the Assad regime exemplified by Saydnaya prison. Many prisoners are not freed yet bcs the rebels cannot get to them as they are 3 floors underground. #Syria
December 8, 2024 at 4:21 PM
Basic background resources for those who not familiar with Saydnaya (also Sednaya/Seydnaya/Sadnaya) & other notorious Syrian prisons such as Tadmor (destroyed 2015), Mazzeh (Air Force Intelligence/Mazzeh Mil Airport), & Qism Falastin (Palestine Branch/Branch 235).
The sheer magnitude of this. 1/6
The sheer magnitude of this. 1/6
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December 13, 2024 at 10:04 PM
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Mazen Hamada was arrested three times due to his activism against the #Assad_regime, with the most severe detention occurring at the Airforce Intelligence Branch in #Damascus.
December 13, 2024 at 3:07 PM
Mazen Hamada was arrested three times due to his activism against the #Assad_regime, with the most severe detention occurring at the Airforce Intelligence Branch in #Damascus.
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On this day, as we celebrate in Syria and around the world, we pause to honor and remember those who never lived to see this moment.
Rest in peace to the fallen victims of Syria.
Rest in peace to the fallen victims of Syria.
December 13, 2024 at 5:13 PM
On this day, as we celebrate in Syria and around the world, we pause to honor and remember those who never lived to see this moment.
Rest in peace to the fallen victims of Syria.
Rest in peace to the fallen victims of Syria.
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This is the Syria we love.
Syria for all Syrians 💚
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Syria for all Syrians 💚
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December 13, 2024 at 1:59 PM
This is the Syria we love.
Syria for all Syrians 💚
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Syria for all Syrians 💚
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Radim, družim se, živim sa Sirijcima već više od sedam godina. U mojoj sirijskoj porodici ima ih iz Halepa, Damaska, Deir Ezora, Idliba, Hame, Kamišlija, a najviše iz Homsa. Neki od njih me zovu Abu Tarik al-Bosnawi. Oni su moji, a ja sam njihov.
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Hodžić: Šta je to ptica?
Radim, družim se, živim sa Sirijcima već više od sedam godina. Teških, turobnih, mračnih sedam godina. Životne tragedije kroz koje su oni prolazili a ja im svjedočio ljude zbliže snažnije, iskrenije p...
nomad.ba
December 11, 2024 at 8:52 PM
Radim, družim se, živim sa Sirijcima već više od sedam godina. U mojoj sirijskoj porodici ima ih iz Halepa, Damaska, Deir Ezora, Idliba, Hame, Kamišlija, a najviše iz Homsa. Neki od njih me zovu Abu Tarik al-Bosnawi. Oni su moji, a ja sam njihov.
nomad.ba/hodzic-sta-j...
nomad.ba/hodzic-sta-j...
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But I do have this to say: fuck every smug bastard who cannot allow Syrians at least a day of untainted relief and joy at ridding themselves of the most vicious tyrant my lifetime has known. Fuck you from me and my Syrian sisters and brothers whose hearts today bleed and sing at the same time.
December 8, 2024 at 2:42 PM
But I do have this to say: fuck every smug bastard who cannot allow Syrians at least a day of untainted relief and joy at ridding themselves of the most vicious tyrant my lifetime has known. Fuck you from me and my Syrian sisters and brothers whose hearts today bleed and sing at the same time.
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genuine, authentic thirst for freedom. Their only role is as pawns in the great American/Israeli scheme, without any agency or characteristic, idea, desire, vision. Yassin al-Haj Saleh deconstructed this some time ago and I have nothing to add to his wise words. newlinesmag.com/review/choms...
Chomsky's America-Centric Prism Distorts Reality
A leading Syrian intellectual takes on the famous linguist, arguing that Americentrism blinds the latter from the reality of the revolution
newlinesmag.com
December 8, 2024 at 2:38 PM
genuine, authentic thirst for freedom. Their only role is as pawns in the great American/Israeli scheme, without any agency or characteristic, idea, desire, vision. Yassin al-Haj Saleh deconstructed this some time ago and I have nothing to add to his wise words. newlinesmag.com/review/choms...
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Reactions of most of the so-called progressives, leftists, anti-imperialists, socialists (faux liberals not to mention) to the fall of Assad betrays their idiotic insistence on seeing EVERYTHING through the anti-American and false anti-imperialist lens. In this view Syrians cannot speak or feel...
December 8, 2024 at 2:35 PM
Reactions of most of the so-called progressives, leftists, anti-imperialists, socialists (faux liberals not to mention) to the fall of Assad betrays their idiotic insistence on seeing EVERYTHING through the anti-American and false anti-imperialist lens. In this view Syrians cannot speak or feel...
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One of the worst questions you could ask now that Bashar al-Assad is gone is "now what".
We don't get to ask that after years of twiddling our thumbs as he wrecked his own country many times over, driving millions of Syrians to death, starvation and misery both at home and while seeking refuge.
We don't get to ask that after years of twiddling our thumbs as he wrecked his own country many times over, driving millions of Syrians to death, starvation and misery both at home and while seeking refuge.
December 8, 2024 at 8:07 AM
One of the worst questions you could ask now that Bashar al-Assad is gone is "now what".
We don't get to ask that after years of twiddling our thumbs as he wrecked his own country many times over, driving millions of Syrians to death, starvation and misery both at home and while seeking refuge.
We don't get to ask that after years of twiddling our thumbs as he wrecked his own country many times over, driving millions of Syrians to death, starvation and misery both at home and while seeking refuge.
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With love, we will rebuild it.
Here are the youth of Syria.💚💚
Here are the youth of Syria.💚💚
December 11, 2024 at 6:07 PM
With love, we will rebuild it.
Here are the youth of Syria.💚💚
Here are the youth of Syria.💚💚
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Our beautiful Latakia 💚
December 11, 2024 at 6:46 PM
Our beautiful Latakia 💚