Involvement of the regime. We had initiated a project with the aim of giving the interested audience in Syria Journalists and lawyers an insight into the large number of un Conventions Syria had signed regarding refugees human rights and so on who will be inflicting it on. Syrian Human Rights Lawyer and while boonie paid a high price for this idea. And i can. Assure you the e. U. Put me in charge of this institution because i was very well known in syria as a Human Rights Lawyer and i had defended Political Prisoners under very difficult conditions since the one Nine Hundred Ninety s. A large office was rented on behalf of the e. U. They got computers and paid for all the equipment. I think. Twenty seven e. U. Representatives came to the opening including twelve ambassadors. Enough and in fact when in retrospect you ask yourself what the e. U. Is thinking they opened a Human Rights Center with me at the helm without really securing that politically. Those who know how the state works w
in march two thousand and eleven the arab spring reached syria the people started loudly voicing their anger and their longing for freedom the regime. reacted with what it did best violence arrests torture and. when the president addressed parliament weeks later the images eerily resembled those of his first speech eleven as earlier. when the hope of so many rested on him now he was a man spouting empty words he spoke of a conspiracy of foreign enemies to the applause from his hired at myra s. that you believe you have. the rebellion turned into a war everyone who turned against assad was labeled a terrorist by the regime the president had syrian towns and cities and the syrian