Syrian woman human rights attorney still missing from Damascus | WNN – Women News Network

Syrian woman human rights attorney still missing from Damascus | WNN – Women News Network

(WNN) Damascus, SYRIA, WESTERN ASIA: An abduction in Syria continues to go unsolved as 36-year-old Syrian human rights attorney and peace activist, Ms. Razan Zaitouneh  became part of the statistics herself that she was gathering inside Syria. Now part of ‘the missing’ inside her country Zaitouneh was forcefully taken away with three other rights defenders in what human rights groups inside and outside of Syria term a “forced disappearance.”

Zaitouneh’s was joined in her abduction by her husband Nazem al-Hamadi, along with reform activist Ms. Sameera Alkhalil along with lawyer and poet Wael Hamadahmore more than one month ago on December 9, 2013 in the Damascus suburb of Douma city.

To date the undetermined group of masked men who committed this crime have not yet been identified, although the source of their affiliations have been part of ongoing disputes between those allied with the government and those who have been working toward reform in Syria. The case has also not been opened officially or investigated by Syria’s government authorities or any other opposing group in Syria.

 

Human rights defender and legal counsel for prisoners of conscience in Syria, Ms. Razan Zaitouneh. Image: DCHRS