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🎗Fadwa Suleiman🎗 was an actress from Syria’s Alawite community, and a prominent voice for the Revolution. She was known for her work in radio, theatre and TV shows. When the uprising began, she used her position to speak out against the Assad regime and cross sectarian divides 
Despite being from the same community as al-Assad, she said that she does not belong to any religious group but to the Syrian people, and outlined the regime’s responsibility in dragging the revolution into sectarianism & militarization, by choosing a brutal military solution
She was visible at protests calling for the downfall of the regime and shared a platform in Homs with football star turned revolutionary Abdelbasset Sarout ✊🏼. She also produced many video messages encouraging peaceful struggle against the regime.
🎗️Hamza Ali Al-Khateeb🎗️ is a Syrian child in the seventh grade from the town of Giza. He was arrested on April 29, 2011 while going to a protest with his family against the siege imposed by the regime on the people of Dara’a. #100faces #9yearsstrong
His body was handed over to his family with marks of torture, cigarette burns, wounds of bullets in his arms and chest, broken bones, a broken neck, and mutilated genitals. Other injuries were consistent with the use of electroshock devices and being whipped with a cable.
Hamza’s death was a catalyst for protests ✊🏼, and the demonstrators organized numerous events to honour him. To this day, he is an icon of the Syrian Revolution, renowned as one of the first martyrs.
