Hans Thoolen on Human Rights Defenders and their awards

[reposted as it seems that the link no longer worked – why? – Syrian secret service THAT sophisticated??]

After more than a month the abduction of 36-year-old human rights defender Ms. Razan Zaitouneh in Syria continues to go unsolved. She became part of the statistics herself that she was gathering inside Syria. Now part of ‘the missing’ inside her country Zaitouneh was joined in her abduction by her husband Nazem al-Hamadi, along with reform activist Ms. Sameera Alkhalil along with lawyer and poet Wael Hamada on December 9, 2013 in the Damascus suburb of Douma city. Just before she recorded this video message for the FIDH:

This entry was posted on January 27, 2014 at 12:09 and is filed under FIDH, human rights, Human Rights Defenders.

Tags: abduction, disappearances, Douma, FIDH, Forced disappearance, Human Rights Defenders, illegal detention, intimidation, Nazem al-Hamadi, Razan Zaitouneh, Sameera Alkhali, Syria, threats, video, Wael Hamada, woman human rights defender, You Tube