Tag: Damascus @en
Regime demands extradition of media activist Qusai Zakarya
Update: Qusai managed to leave Syria after going through interrogations of regime representatives. Latest update by Michael Weiss. We have already reported on the Syrian-Palestinian media activist Qusai Zakarya from Moadamiya, Damascus. He has been an active voice in the "Break the Siege" campaign to raise awareness of the regime's…
Activist in danger: Qusai Zakarya
We hereby document a statement posted on the Facebook-page "Solidarity with Qusai Zakarya" on January 13th, 2014. Qusai was blogging in English about his experiences during the hunger strike. Adopt a Revolution is working closly with the the media committee in Moadamiya, that documents the planful starvation of the besieged…
On Hassan Hassan, or the most beautiful place on earth, Yarmouk Camp!
Salim Salameh, 17th December, 2013 A million thanks for the help of Mary Hassan Ali Rizzo in this piece. Whoever tells his story, inherits the land of speech and thus possesses the key to the meaningful. Mahmoud Darwish, Palestinian Poet I dedicate this text to Hassan's wife, the one who…
Opposition Activists in Damascus Give Views on Peaceful Solution
(Damascus, Syria) – Negotiations around the Geneva II conference, which aims to bring the Syrian opposition and the regime into dialogue, have reached a critical stage: the decision on whether the conference will be held and under what conditions will be made soon. Reports indicate that the West is increasing…
Help citizen journalists in Syria
The nerve gas attack in Syria marked a watershed in the conflict, as its most terrifying atrocity to date. News of the attack reached us via the work of Syrian citizen journalists, who work for local civilian committees, our partner organisations. These journalists collect news from across Syria and transmit…
Urgent Appeal to Support Eastern Ghouta – Razan Zeitouneh
Razan Zaitouneh 3 September 2013 There is no area in Syria –whether liberated, besieged or experiencing confrontations with the regime– that does not need aid at all levels. These words are not intended to divert the little attention directed to a few liberated areas in Syria, but aim to pay…
“Help Syria today. Tomorrow it might be too late.”
Syrian intellectual Yassin al-Haj Saleh demands in a letter to the world to support the Syrian uprising now - as tomorrow it already might be too late. The letter was published in English, French, Arabic and Spanish newspapers and in meanwhile was also translated in German. June 28, 2013, Eastern…
Women’s hunger strike in Adra prison
In a letter to the Court of Terrorism, a group of detainees in Adra prison, Eastern Damascus, declared an open-ended hunger starting on 1st of July. In the following we document their letter. To the Director of the Department of Public Prosecutions - handling cases in the Court of Terrorism…
Explosions in Damascus: Documented Press releases
On occasion of the series of explosions and shellings in Damascus on Thursday, 21 February 2013, we document two press releases by opposition bodies. The first is of the National Coalition of Syrian Revolution and Opposition Forces (Syrian Coalition, SC), that condemns "these heinous crimes [of the Assad regime] that…