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13 years since the Syrian revolution sparked hope in Syriansโ hearts, the pursuit of freedom, justice and peace continues โ and Syrian women have been carrying a huge share of this struggle.
Support Syriaโs unspoken heroes. Watch & share.
#Myanmar
protestors on a mural in
#Idlib
. Syrians know well what it means when the military bombs civilians, cracks down on protestors, & targets humanitarians & health workers. When the world is silent in the face of all of that.
Artist: Aziz Asmar
Solidarity knows no borders.
Solidarity with the brave Syrian women & men who have been protesting in different cities across Syria, south & north, demanding dignity and freedom โค๏ธโ๏ธ
โWe are here to continue, our revolution continues. We want our rights. We want to overthrow the regime.โ
Video by
@suwayda24
Solidarity with Ukrainians from Syrians in Idlib, also under attack by Russia.
Mural painted on the rubble of homes destroyed by Assad and Putin by artist Aziz Asmar.
#standwithukraine
Fantastic news! Syrian refugee Aya Abu Daher has won her appeal against the Danish government and has been granted residency in
#Denmark
.
Thousands of people rallied around Aya when she fell victim to Denmarkโs racist policy of stripping Syrian refugees of residency
"The UN owes the Syrian people an apology for letting them down". The head of the White Helmets
@RaedAlSaleh3
said at a press conference today that UN bureaucracy and the need for Security Council approval for cross-border aid access has contributed to the loss of Syrian lives.
THREAD: Today we publish a report, "Killing The Truth" that details the Russian-backed disinformation campaign against Syria's heroic rescue workers the
@SyriaCivilDef
known as the White Helmets. /1
From
#Idlib
to the United States:
#BlackLivesMatter
A mural of
#GeorgeFloyd
by artists Aziz Asmar and Anis Hamdoun on a wall of a destroyed building in the town of Binnish in Idlib, Syria.
Breaking! The UN has just voted to create a new int'l body to uncover the fate and whereabouts of 100,000+ forcibly disappeared and missing persons in Syria. The result of tireless work by survivors & families of victims, who knocked on every door to get their voices heard ๐
๐จURGENT FUNDRAISER๐จ A huge earthquake hit Syria this morning, already claiming 384 lives & injuring hundreds more
The White Helmets first responders are on the ground searching for survivors & retrieving the injured from collapsed buildings
Donate at
White Helmets resting in Ghouta after 20 straight hours of saving lives in the horror. Last night two of their volunteers were killed, another succumbed to his wounds this morning. They responded to barrel bombs, cluster bombs, chlorine gas and phosphorus attacks.
#SaveGhouta
Over 900 civilians have died today in Syria in a magnitude 7.8 earthquake and thousands are still stuck under the rubble.
3000 White Helmets volunteers are on the ground recovering survivors from collapsed buildings and need urgent support. Donate now:
Syrian families and activists gathered in front of the Berlin Gate (Brandenburger Tor) today in solidarity with the hundreds of families who have poured into the streets waiting for news of their missing loved ones since the news of the detainees' amnesty
Unnecessary exaggeration and triumphalism by
@Newsweek
, with none other than Boutaina Shaaban, the dictatorโs personal adviser and mouthpiece, as a source. Thread ๐งต:
Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad, once a political pariah, is now being welcomed back by many of the countries that cut him off 10 years ago, despite ongoing U.S. opposition.
โ๏ธ
@ShaolinTom
Devastating reports of a chemical attack in
#Douma
. At least 70 reported killed and hundreds injured with numbers rising rapidly. Whole families suffocated as they sheltered in basements. The world could have saved these lives -- a fact always worth repeating.
Imagine waiting for years for a phone call. Syrian families have placed hundreds of phones across Berlinโs Bebelplatz to demonstrate the scale of their suffering as they wait, willing the phone to ring with any news of the fate of their disappeared loved ones
#DayoftheDisappeared
As Putin orders troops into Ukraine, we stand in solidarity with the Ukrainian people. Russia's deadly and indiscriminate bombing campaign in Syria has led to bloodshed and suffering on a mass scale. The world must not stand by as Russia once again abuses its military might.
As the sun sets on the first day of the landmark International Court of Justice case against the Syrian regimeโs use of torture, Syrian activists hold photos of their forcibly disappeared loved ones outside the court. Stand with them as they push for a Syria free from torture
On
#IWD2020
& every day, we stand in solidarity with Idlib's brave journalist Merna Alhasan as she faces a vicious sexist campaign from regime supporters, including journalists and a so-called MP. Follow her important work
@AlhasanMahar
Stop a war criminal from making his comeback at the world climate conference this month.
A message from Syrian filmmaker Waad al-Kateab to
#COP28
host &
#ManCity
owner the UAE: uninvite brutal dictator Assad
๐จSign the petition
#UninviteAssad
@HHMansoor
We are gathered today in
#Berlin
with Syrian survivors, activists, artists and musicians to honour and pay tribute to those who were killed by the Syrian regime in the
#Ghouta
chemical weapons massacre ten years ago and to demand justice in their name.
@ActForGhouta
The Syrian regimeโs attempts to whitewash its crimes reached a new low this weekend when Assad attended a summit on
#Gaza
in Saudi Arabia, as if these attacks donโt mirror his own crimes against Syrians over the years.
Please think of Islam Dabbasโ family, whoโve just learned of his death in the brutal Sednaya prison. His sister took this photo of him in 2011 before he went to a peaceful protest where he was arrested by the regime. Islam would hand regime soldiers roses to show he came in peace
"Over the past 9 years, we Syrians have been killed in every way possible: by barrel bombs, shelling, guns, chemical weapons, torture, starvation. But I believe the hardest way to be killed is in silence, so I keep telling our stories."
@waadalkateab
This is an SOS call from Maarat al-Numan, where 16 people including 5 children were killed yesterday as the Syrian regime and Russia intensify their attacks.
Spread the word so that those in positions of power cannot say they don't know what is happening.
#IdlibUnderFire
It's been 9 years since we lost activist & filmmaker Bassel Shehadeh.
Bassel left a scholarship in the US to join the uprising. He was killed in a regime assault on Homs.
He's forever etched into the hearts of Syrians & human rights defenders everywhere.
Rest in power, Bassel
More cases need to be brought against Assad, his barbaric regime and all the other groups guilty of war crimes in Syria. Healing will only happen with accountability
Big news.
U.S. court finds
#Assad
regime guilty of purposely targeting Marie Colvin in
#Homs
,
#Syria
in Feb 2012.
$302 million charges imposed for "an unconscionable attack."
โI wish I could go back to Syria & stand with the brave men & women protesting in Sweida Jaramana, Tartus & other areas but I canโt bc I know that returning to Syria means I'll end up detained tortured or killedโ Powerful words by
@LubnaAlkanawati
of
@WomenNowForDev
to UNSC today
Thread: Syrian activists are warning of a humanitarian catastrophe in
#Daraa
, southern Syria, after the regime & Russian forces put the city under a tight siege since June 24. No food or basic necessities are allowed & people are reporting an internet & electricity blackout. 1/
Saudi women's rights activist
#LoujainAlhathloul
has been released after 1001 in prison. May every family with a detained loved one experience the joy of reunionโค๏ธ
5 years ago Khaled al-Essa was killed after suffering severe head injuries from an IED. He was one of Syria's bravest and most loved journalists, often risking his life to tell the world what's happening in
#Syria
.
In
#Syria
, gender-based violence is used as a weapon of war. Yet Syrian women have defied the odds to claim their space and participate in shaping their countryโs future. On March 8,
@amnesty
will be releasing a film about this. Watch the trailer below
"In my hometown, there are no humanitarian organizations working to provide relief, food, or shelter. Only the White Helmets are here to help those who stayed and canโt go anywhere else." Please read
@SyriaCivilDef
volunteer Amal Hamo's oped in
@TeenVogue
Who could forget the persimmon's love in
@forsamafilm
?
After 10 months, Afraa is reunited with her family here in
#London
.
I can't describe how happy we are to be together again.
A new start and future until we will be back to
#Aleppo
.
@ActionForSama
Bashar al-Assad should be pursued with an arrest warrant. Instead he's being greeted with open arms back into the
#ArabLeague
. Here are just 7 reasons why normalizing with Assad's regime is a shameful, terrible idea: ๐งต
Syriaโs football team is currently playing Australiaโs in the
#AsianCup2019
. Missing from the pitch are 15 footballers the Assad regime has murdered for defying it and seven players it is holding in detention.
#AUSvSYR
#AsianCup
A Syrian court has sentenced 11 prisoners to death for protesting peacefully against the Assad regime while nine others will be detained for life. Today the men announced a hunger strike and asked international human rights organisations to save them
Important victory for survivors and families of victims of chemical attacks in Syria. This step towards justice is only possible because of the tireless, years-long work of Syrian activists and survivors in demanding accountability.
In a historical precedent, an international arrest warrant was issued against Bashar al-Assad, Maher al-Assad, and others based on their involvement in the chemical massacre in Ghouta 2013. Investigative judges in France have their say. In this sort of crime, there is no immunity
A headteacher in Denmark is fighting against the Danish immigration minister
@mattiastesfaye
โs decision to withdraw the residence permit of his student Aya Abu-Daher, and send her family back to Syria
#SyriaNotSafe
#dkpol
@Statsmin
Syrian families are urging the UN to establish an international body to uncover the fate of Syriaโs disappeared, in a call backed by 90 missing persons groups, NGOs & activists from around the world, ahead of a key meeting at the UN General assembly today
#TruthAndJustice4Syria
"I travelled to Ukraine last month, alongside 13 Syrian activists, to show Ukrainian children that we see what is happening to them, and that we care, even if the world does not"
17 Syrian groups are demanding the UN Security Council address the shocking
#Tadamon
massacre and hold perpetrators accountable. Read and share the letter:
โWe stand in awe of the bravery of Syrian activists, victims & family groups whose tireless work led to a UN vote to create an international body to uncover the fate of Syriaโs disappeared. Watch & share this video to celebrate their efforts & see how much the vote means to them
The Last Men in Aleppo is up for the
#Oscars
tonight.
@995Khaled
of the White Helmets and
@KareemAbeedAMC
, Hasan and Fadi of Aleppo Media Centre are in LA and available for interviews. Contact them direct.
#Syria
Idlib has lost its 4th doctor to COVID, Dr. Abdulmunem Gorani, leaving colleagues heartbroken.
When a doctor is lost in northwest Syria there's no way to replace them. He refused to leave Syria saying "If all of us doctors leave, whoโs going to save lives and serve the people?"
Congrats to incredible White Helmets volunteer Amina Al-Bish of
@SyriaCivilDef
for being in the
@BBC100women
! Itโs a great recognition of her amazing work alongside her fellow volunteers in saving lives and helping the most vulnerable communities in northern
#Syria
.
#BBC100Women
Our deepest condolences to
@SyriaCivilDef
&
@RaedAlSaleh3
on the loss of Mohammad al Masarwa. Mohammad, co-founder and former Director of the White Helmets in
#Ghouta
, was martyred today. RIP.
August marks 10 years since the worst chemical weapons attack of the 21st century, when the Syrian regime massacred more than 1,100 people in Ghouta in 2013. To demand justice & accountability, join survivors of chemical attacks and the Syrian community at vigils around the world
If you do one thing today please read and share this article by
@GeorgeMonbiot
. Syrians donโt want your pity, they want your solidarity, and that starts with a commitment to seek and amplify the truth.
In Response To
@RogerWaters
: Last week Waters made a false and disgraceful claim that the White Helmets, Syriaโs first responders, staged the April 7 2018 chemical attack on the city of Douma. 1/
On Friday, the winner(s) of the annual
#NobelPeacePrize
will be announced. Among the nominees are Syriaโs search and rescue heroes the White Helmets
@SyriaCivilDef
. Hereโs why they deserve to win
Thread: Last night the US bombed facilities of Iranian-backed militias in northeast
#Syria
.
Itโs important to know who these militias are, and why they are in Syria.
โIn your liberation from occupation, we see our liberation from tyranny.โ
An open letter from free Syrians in solidarity with
#Palestine
.
The letter was printed and distributed amongst protesters in
#Jerusalem
Yesterday, on 19 September, President Zelensky warned world leaders what happens when there is inaction in the face of Russian aggression. He reminded them that chemical weapons have been used as a weapon against the Syrian people and that war crimes must be punished.
#UNGA78
Todayโs decision by Arab states to allow the Assad regime to rejoin the Arab League is a devastating setback for justice and human rights for Syria and for the whole region. It whitewashes a regime responsible for 12 years of harrowing atrocities
Arab governments have voted to return Syria to the Arab League. It was suspended 12 years ago, early in the uprising-turned-conflict that has killed nearly 500,000 people. The decision includes a commitment to ongoing dialogue to seek a political solution.
โDonโt suffocate us twice.โ Watch this message to heads of state from Syrian survivors, human rights defenders and lawyers calling for the establishment of an exceptional chemical weapons tribunal to hold all perpetrators of chemical attacks to account.
Mabrouk to Syrian journalist Yakeen Bido, known as Merna al-Hasan (
@AlhasanMahar
), for receiving the
@IWMF
Courage in Journalism Award.
Risking her own life, Yakeen has been reporting on
#Idlib
for years to tell the world about the dire situation civilians are living through.
๐จNo one was deported from the UK to
#Rwanda
last night๐จ๐Together campaigners, human rights lawyers and thousands of members of the public successfully challenged the governmentโs unprecedented first flight sending people seeking protection in the UK 4,000 miles away to Rwanda.
A brave person took this photo from central Damascus. It shows chained young men being watched by a regime soldier. The photo has gone viral among Syrians with many saying the men were being forcibly conscripted into the army. Is this the safety Assad promises the Syrian people?
Syrian families, activists and survivors witnessed an important moment of justice today in
#Koblenz
. None of this wouldโve been accomplished without their tireless efforts and non stop campaigning to
#FreeDetainees
.
#KoblenzTrial