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Open Letter to Stop the War Coalition on Agnès Mariam de la Croix

Posted by Maryam Namazie
On November 21, 2013
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Agnès Mariam de la Croix, Syria

Here’s an open letter to Stop the War Coalition that I signed which (yet again) highlights their support of those who defend oppressive regimes like Iran’s and Syria’s. The open letter was published here. You can read it below. By the way, here’s a good article by James Bloodworth on this issue saying she is […]

Posted by Maryam Namazie
On September 13, 2013
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Ali Ferzat, Syria

Syrian cartoonist Ali Ferzat who fingers were broken by Asad has an exhibition in London. He says the “exhibition is about the essence of the revolution – it’s human and creative side, which the media ignores. Wherever I go I try and show this hidden part of my people’s culture.” He adds: “I am not […]

Posted by Maryam Namazie
On July 18, 2013
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children, Islamist, Syria

Here’s a good report on the opposition to Asad but also the Islamists in Syria. It says: “The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria detained the media activist Mohammad Nour Matar on Tuesday evening outside its base… after he stood alongside a woman who tried to stage a sit-in,” Matar’s brother Amer told AFP. In […]

Posted by Maryam Namazie
On October 19, 2012
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Syria

Avaaz reports that in the past 19 months at least 28,000 – 80,000 Syrians – if not more – have vanished into thin air, ‘disappeared’ by the Syrian government forces and militia as a deliberate strategy to terrorise the population at large. No one is safe – from women and men out food shopping to entire […]

Open Letter to Stop the War Coalition on Agnès Mariam de la Croix

Human essence of Syria’s revolution

No one wants them

Vanished into thin air

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