Families for Freedom

Artists, students from the Faculty of Fine Arts at the University of Damascus, and relatives of missing persons paint black-and-white portraits of detainees whose fate remains unknown
Post-Assad Syria
MENA
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UN agency hands over project to find missing Syrians to new govt

The Independent Institution on Missing Persons was established in 2023 to determine the fate of hundreds of thousands of missing people in Syria.

Oliver Mizzi
19 March, 2025
Syria
MENA
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Families await vote on new UN body to trace Syria's missing

The New Arab Staff
28 June, 2023
A picture of Iqbal, a Syrian detainee, is held up in front of a World Cup match in Doha. [Provided with permission by Families for Freedom].
2022 Qatar World Cup
MENA
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#MissingWorldCup2022: Syrians campaign for detainees

William Christou
15 December, 2022
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Syria
In-depth
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The fight to establish a UN mechanism for Syria's missing

Ibtisam Azem
29 November, 2022
Ahmed Manasra
MENA
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Israeli court drops 'terrorism' charge on Ahmad Manasra

Sally Ibrahim
13 April, 2022
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trial
Syria Insight
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Syria Insight: German court case highlights Assad's torture legacy

Paul McLoughlin
06 July, 2020
daraa
torture
MENA
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Protests break out in regime-controlled Syria following arrests

The New Arab
06 November, 2019
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War Crimes
Society
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Families of missing Syrians tour London on 'Freedom Bus'

The New Arab Staff

The New Arab

12 October, 2017