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19 Jan, 23 tweets, 19 min read
Noone knows how many have been disappeared & tortured to death by Assad regime. Well over 100,000. Families are afraid to speak. When someone is arrested, they disappear. They are not charged or tried. No one can find out where they are, or talk to them - ever
#SyriasDisappeared
'There is no shortage of evidence of the horrors of detention in Syria. Witnesses describe inhuman conditions, torture & brutal deaths. The UN has accused the Syrian government of the murder, rape, torture & extermination of detainees'

#SyriasDisappeared

amp.theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
@amnesty

Assad 'human slaughterhouse' Sednaya

'Thousands have died in Syria’s torture prisons. Tens of thousands experience torture - brutally beaten, raped, electric shocks. Anyone suspected of opposing the Syrian govt is at risk'

#SyriasDisappeared

amnesty.org.uk/press-releases…
In 2O13 the entire family of Rania al Abassi & Abdul Rahmin were disappeared and have not been seen since. No one knows where they were taken, what happened to them there and whether they are still alive

#SyriasDisappeared ImageImageImageImage
'Syria's Disappeared' tells the story of tens of thousands of men, women & children disappeared by regime of Bashar al Assad into a network of detention, torture & death centres

On YouTube @HolocaustMuseum


#HolocaustRemembranceDay
#SyriasDisappeared
Ninth Annual Report on Enforced Disappearance in Syria

No Political Solution without the Disappeared

An enforced disappearance pandemic ravages Syrian society with c 100,000 disappeared Syrians since March 2011, the vast majority by the Syrian regime. sn4hr.org/blog/2020/08/3…
Khalil Ma'touq a human rights lawyer was disappeared by the Assad regime on 2nd Oct 2012

His family repeatedly ask the government for information about his whereabouts, the government ignores their requests'

#DayoftheEndangeredLawyer

#SyriasDisappeared

amnesty.org.uk/khalil-matouq-…
Under the principle of Universal Jurisdiction, prosecutors in Germany accuse 2 Syrian govt security officials of crimes against humanity committed at Branch 251 detention center Damascus

@Branch_251 podcast provides updates on the trial
#SyriasDisappeared
podcasts.google.com/?feed=aHR0cHM6…
On 2nd July 2013 Ali Mustafa was disappeared by the Assad regime. His daughter @WafaMustafa9 protests outside the court in Koblenz where the Branch 251 trial is taking place, holding photographs of her father and others of #SyriasDisappeared, demanding they be freed ImageImageImage
Branch 251 Trial

'A grave digger claimed in 12 months from 2011 to 2012 he helped bury over 50,000 bodies. All showed evidence of being tortured with bruises, electric shock & burn marks. After 2013 he claimed the numbers increased'

#SyriasDisappeared
rotynan.medium.com/the-holocaust-…
July 2020
@WafaMustafa9 of @FamiliesSyria delivered a statement to UNSC demanding

*freedom for her father & all #SyriasDisappeared
*immediate action from UNSC to ensure the large scale release of all detainees
*an end to torture
*an end to impunity

Nothing has been done since
At a vigil on 9th Dec 2020
@Syria_Irl called on Irish government to use its UNSC mandate to demand:

Red Cross be allowed into Syrian prisons
Return of bodies to families
Release of all surviving prisoners
An end to ongoing arrests

@irishmissionun @NorwayUN
#SyriasDisappeared ImageImageImageImage
Syrian journalist Jihad Ass'ad Muhammad was disappeared by the Assad regime in Damascus on 10th August 2013

His family have no idea where and how he is

cpj.org/data/people/ji…

#SyriasDisappeared ImageImageImage
'In 2013 a photographer for the Syrian military police, code-named Caesar, smuggled 53,275 photographs out of Syria, showing the bodies of sometimes naked, brutally mutilated detainees, who had been held due to participation in protests against Assad'

middleeasteye.net/news/republish…
Today on her birthday we think of Samira al Khalil🌹👏🏼
A former political detainee & a revolutionary activist, a founder of the Center for Documentation of Violations in Syria, she was abducted in Douma in 2013 most probably by Jaish alIslam
#SyriasDisappeared
#Douma4
@Yassinhs ImageImageImage
Samira al Khalil was abducted & disappeared along with 3 of her human rights activist colleagues: Wael Hamada, Nazem Hamadi,and Razan Zaitouneh

None of the #Douma4 have been seen since

Jaesh al Islam figures in Turkey & N Syria & have not been questioned about their whereabouts ImageImageImage


On Wednesday 10th February 5 organisations fighting for #SyriasDisappeared come together to launch the Truth and Justice Charter ImageImage
Palestinian nurse Bassel Hassan Omar was disappeared by the Syrian government on March 7, 2013. 

Bassel was kidnapped by government forces from AlMujtahid Hospital in Damascus, where he served as a nurse. His fate remains unknown
#SyriasDisappeared

actionpal.org.uk/en/post/10886/…. ImageImage
There are thousands of innocent women & children in Syrian detention centres, hundreds of mothers arrested with their children, & children born inside detention centres. Some due to the activism of relatives who oppose the regime
@nouraghazilaw #UNSC

un.org/press/en/2020/…
Palestinian refugee Tawfiq Jebali & his two sons Mohamed Kheir & Wael, from Yarmouk Camp were arrested on October 15, 2012 at a government-run checkpoint in Damascus. Their family have no knowledge of their whereabouts or whether they are still alive

actionpal.org.uk/en/post/11266 Image
Lokman Slim who was brutally murdered last week made the powerful film 'Tadmor' with Monika Borgmann in which a group of former prisoners reenact the torture & savagery they experienced in Assad's notorious Tadmor prison, 'the kingdom of death & madness'

vimeo.com/193400545?ref=…
'Upon referring to the civil registry departments in their areas to obtain detainees-related documents, family members would be shocked by reading the word deceased under the names of their fathers, sons, husbands, or wives & daughters'
#SyriasDisappeared
stj-sy.org/en/my-mother-s…
Today we attended this very moving & inspiring event to launch the Truth & Justice Charter launched by 5 associations for victims, survivors & families of #SyriasDisappeared

Victims with this Charter are setting the accountability agenda & proposing practical concrete mechanisms Image

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10 Feb
Attending session with extremely courageous survivors & family members of #SyriasDisappeared

5 organisations have come together - based on their shared suffering & hope - to demand & explain what is needed to achieve #TruthandJusticeFirst in Syria

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Ahmed Helmi from @taafi_SY, a survivor of Assads detention system speaks

This Charter describes the justice victims aspire to. The victims are at the core, they are the cornerstone, they have a central role as active actors not just victims or witnesses.

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Charter goes beyond demands to propose solutions & practical mechanisms to reveal fate of the Disappeared, with victims at heart of any work for justice & accountability

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Ahmad Helmi tells of his own experience ⬇️
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9 Feb
Thread #Musthear the excell @lukeharding1968 re lack pressure #Russia "The European Union needs a hard, tough strategy to deal with Russia" newstalk.com/podcasts/highl… via @NewstalkFM
‘you mentioned in your introduction about the expulsion of three European diplomats,a German,a Pole anda Swede a couple of days ago.And of course, this happened when Josep Borrell , the foreign policy chief, was in town.And it was essentially done deliberately to humiliate him/2
and to say to to to the world, 'butt out of our affairs, if if we wish to imprison or poison our political prisoners, we will.' ..'Until the EU actually steps up here, the criminal will carry on doing what what it does and exploiting European hesitancy and weakness, I would say/3
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8 Feb
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V. interesting webinar marking launch @snhr 10th report "The Bleeding Decade"& expert panel suggestions on how to avoid another one ,includes reflections on failure of #UNSC & #R2P
"Moving into the murky dirty world of geopolitics,there needs tob recognition thatRussia&Turkey have interests inSyria &how those r factored into any initiative.Russia obviously best placed tob communicating with senior figs in regime..but they want their interests maintained/2
whether military or business&that's a difficult concept2 hear esp from ppl who've been fighting against war crimes & crimes ag humanity,esp Syrians who have been on receiving end of Russian brute force.That's a geopolitical reality than needs2 b factored in/3
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8 Feb
In 2018 @rte ignored our protests re the What in the World episode from Aleppo which was part funded by the Right wing actively pro Assad group SOS Chrétiens d'Orient who have links to militias in Syria suspected of war crimes

lexpress.fr/actualite/mond…
The first of those thanked by the maker of that film was Beatrice Challan Belval, Chef de Mission of SOS CdO in Syria

'Around one of the tables is Hala Chawi a businesswoman & personal friend of Asma al-Assad, the wife of the Syrian President'
lexpress.fr/actualite/mond…
'To the right of Hala Chawi, are seated Alexandre Goodarzy and Béatrice Challan-Belval, both heads of mission in Syria of the charitable association SOS Chrétiens d'Orient (SOS CO)'

Yet @rte dismissed our claims the programme promoted the Assad narrative on Aleppo
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7 Feb
'A litany of failures by the UN has resulted in the Syrian people feeling abandoned by the international community. An argument could be made that the UN did not simply fail but is complicit in the murder of Syrians on a huge scale' middleeastmonitor.com/20210206-has-t… https://t.co/VIAVRunySj
'A recent revelation that the World Health Organisation, a body that feeds into the UN, has been using the Rami Makhlouf-owned airline "Cham Wings" to deliver aid to Libya is deeply disturbing. Makhlouf, a cousin of Bashar Al-Assad, is on the EU & the Caesar Act sanctions' lists'
'Makhlouf exemplifies the corrupt elite who have profited under Assad rule & until very recently, has had vast influence within the regime. The UN should be held to account for using his company'
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14 Dec 20
The Irish Syria Solidarity Movement 'has called on @sinnfeinireland to clarify its position on Syria after social media posts from its two of its TDs emerged questioning whether President Assad gassed his own citizens'

thetimes.co.uk/article/sinn-f…
We are very concerned that SF Foreign Affairs spokesperson has a track record of characterising opposition to Assad as 'terrorists' since 2012, before ISIS was even in Syria, & casting doubt on Assad CW attacks. This is not one thoughtless tweet. We seek clarification from SF
We can find a number of occasions where @johnbradysf objects to US & Turkey actions in Syria, but none that refer to Assad/Russia campaign of bombing of hospitals, schools, markets or to starvation sieges by Assad/Iran/Hezbollah or 100,000+ disappeared, tortured, killed by Assad
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