A Call on the Occasion of Ramadan by Father Paolo Dall’Oglio

A Call on the occasion of Ramadan 1434H, 2013AD

Believers in God, the One, the Merciful as well as all believers in humanity refuse the ongoing bloody fighting and horrific conflict unfolding between Muslims of the Sunni branch and their Shi’i counterparts, who together form the one nation of Islam.

The massive moral, human, and material losses caused by conflicts extending from Pakistan to Lebanon, and from Iran to Yemen as well as the sectarian conflicts stretching from Egypt to North West Africa and the Sahara are irreplaceable and damage the reputation of Islam, the religion of peace, and its people. استمر في القراءة

Faces from the Syrian Revolution: Amjad al-Sioufi

In Memory of Amjad al-Sioufi

Who was martyred as the result of the Syrian regime’s shelling on 18/1/2013.

Today, I paid my condolences at Amjad’s home. Many people were there, some I knew and some I did not. I did not stay for long, unfortunately, as I had a prior commitment and planned on staying for no more than an hour. His friends started talking about Amjad and what he did for the revolution. I will tell you some of what he did, and you can judge for yourselves. I will start from the beginning of the revolution. استمر في القراءة

سوريا تعاني من ازمة اغتصاب هائلة

في جميع أنحاء البلد التي مزقتها الحرب، يقال إن جنود النظام يعتدون جنسياً على النساء والرجال المنتمين للمعارضة، مما يؤدي لتدمير أسر الضحايا و في بعض الحالات إزهاق أرواحهم.

تقرير أعدته لورين وولف Lauren Wolfe

3 نيسان / أبريل 2013

لاجئون السوريون يحملون أطفالهم في مخيم الزعتري للاجئين في مدينة المفرق الأردنية قرب الحدود مع سوريا يوم 12 شباط/فبراير 2013. (محمد حامد / رويترز)

لاجئون السوريون يحملون أطفالهم في مخيم الزعتري للاجئين في مدينة المفرق الأردنية قرب الحدود مع سوريا يوم 12 شباط/فبراير 2013. (محمد حامد / رويترز)

في أحد أيام خريف عام 2012، جلبت القوات الحكومية السورية خطيبة أحد جنود الجيش السوري الحر وأخواته ووالدته وجاراته إلى السجن الذي كان محتجزا فيه حيث تم اغتصابهن الواحدة تلو الأخرى حسب شهادته. استمر في القراءة

Carta sobre Siria a los intelectuales y líderes de opinión en Occidente

Traducido por Naomí Ramírez

Por Yassin Al-Hajj Saleh | Siria

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Queridos amigos:

Hace unos tres meses me dirigí a la zona liberada de Al-Ghouta oriental, dejando atrás la capital, Damasco, donde la vida se había vuelto asfixiante. Fueron necesarias varias semanas y una minuciosa preparación para que pudieran sacarme con éxito de una ciudad dividida por cientos de controles y barreras, y que Bashar Asad quiere conservar como centro del poder que heredó de su padre a principios de este siglo. استمر في القراءة

photo of the day – صورة اليوم

The photo shows a solitary cell in one of the liberated State Security branches in Syria .....A defected soldier who used to work in this branch said that they used to put two or even three detainees in this Standing Coffin

The photo shows a solitary cell in one of the liberated State Security branches in Syria …..A defected soldier who used to work in this branch said that they used to put two or even three detainees in this Standing Coffin

Source

عشق الأسد للكيمياوي

عشق الأسد للكيمياوي

كيف استطاعت استراتيجية الديكتاتور السوري الذكية والساخرة أن تغلب أوباما

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26 أبريل/ نيسان 2013

Joseph Holliday

 جوزيف هوليداي

لا بد للمرء أن يعترف. ربما يكون بشار الأسد ديكتاتور قاسي ولا يرحم، ولكنه يعلم كيف يلعب بأوراقه. بتقديمه الحذر والتدريجي للأسلحة الكيمياوية إلى الصراع السوري، حوَّل خط أوباما الأحمر الواضح إلى ألوان الانطباعيين المائية، مما قوض التهديد بتدخل عسكري أميركي. على الرغم من أن تصريح أوباما يوم الجمعة “لقد تجاوزنا الخط”، فإن الأسد يعلم أن الولايات المتحدة لا تريد أن تُجر إلى حرب أهلية في الشرق الأوسط وهو يحاول الرد على خدعة أوباما. استمر في القراءة

In Solidarity with Female Detainees in Adra Prison on Hunger Strike

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Starting Monday morning (1 July 2013) a group of Syrian woman detainees in Adra prison commenced an open-ended hunger strike, their position was announced in this following letter addressed to the Syrian regime’s Court of Terrorism, which reads:

To the Director of Public Prosecutions handing cases in the Court of Terrorism
Two main points
Please note that there were more than one letter sent to you to inquire about our situation in the Department of deposit in the women’s prison in Adra, None of our letters have been answered … and when we asked the prison administration about our mysterious situation. The prison’s reply was always that nothing to do with the prison administration and you officials in the terrorism court are the only ones who can deal and responsible for our long and hard presence term in the prison, especially we have among us a lot of older women, the sick and pregnant women, mothers and university students and employees, and where the number of inmates is increasing day after day while there are only a few days on the advent of Ramadan. . Accordingly, the inmates in the Department of deposit in Adra prison for women has decided to start a peaceful hunger strike starting Monday Dated 01/07/2013 until our status in prison is considered, dealt with and accelerate brining our cases to the competent courts, noting that many of us, the striking prisoned women have exceeded the duration of four to six months. As we draw your attention to the fact that many of the inmates are barred from communicating and getting in touch with their parents and relatives. Also, most of our parents and relatives cannot come to visit us in the prison due to the current poor and unsafe conditions of the roads which increases our suffering. Please reply to us clearly and quickly, and thank you very much
Political Inmates in Adra prison .. Department of deposit

The letter was obtained from reliable sources within Adra prison and translated by the organisers of the solidarity movement with the striking prisoners