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Exklusiv: Wie eine prominente Aktivistin in Syrien ins Fadenkreuz von Rebellen geriet
Razan Zeitouneh kämpfte für Menschenrechte. 2013 verschwand die Anwältin spurlos im Syrien-Krieg. Die DW hat jetzt die mutmaßlichen Täter identifiziert.
Razan Zeitouneh wurde im Dezember 2013 verschleppt
Razan Zeitouneh wusste, wie gefährlich ihre Arbeit war. Aber ihr Traum von einem demokratischen Syrien war größer als ihre Angst. Nach Beginn des syrischen Bürgerkriegs im Jahr 2011 wurde sie schnell eine der Ikonen der Opposition. Zeitounehs Beharrlichkeit beeindruckte viele Menschen. Ihre Furchtlosigkeit machte sie zu einer Gefahr für das Assad-Regime.
Die prominente Anwältin organisierte landesweit Proteste – und sie dokumentierte Menschenrechtsverletzungen und Kriegsverbrechen. Das Besondere: Sie ging allen Fällen nach – egal, ob sie von Assads Truppen oder von der bewaffneten Opposition begangen wurden. Im Dezember 2013 entführten Unbekannte Razan Zeitouneh, ihren Ehemann und zwei Kollegen. Seitdem sind sie verschwunden.
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Iraqi security forces firing tear gas and live rounds into a crowd of demonstrators during the 2019 Tishreen (October) uprising
The last decade has seen historic political upheavals across the Middle East and North Africa: a tsunami of popular uprisings that have brought down several dictators and led to momentous transformations in political consciousness, if not always to democratic outcomes. But the last decade has also seen a concomitant counter-revolutionary roll-back across the region: authoritarian regimes, entrenched elites, ruling classes, deep states, and reactionary forces have marshalled considerable resources to torpedo these movements from below.[1]
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Razan Zeitouneh fought for justice in Syria and made enemies on all sides. Then she disappeared without a trace. Her fate remains unknown to this day. On the tenth anniversary of the revolution, Lewis Sanders, Birgitta Schulke-Gill, Wafaa Al Badry and Julia Bayer look back on her life
Syria, March 2011. Razan Zeitouneh was beaming as she swayed among the protesters. She was caught up in defiant revelry as she joined the crowds in chanting against the Syrian regime.
When the revolution kicked off, it was as if Zeitouneh had waited her entire life for it. She was among the first activists to call on the Syrian government to release political prisoners in an open letter published a day after the first major protests on 15 March 2011.
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Protesters at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. waving the Syrian rebel flag. November 25, 2019. Photo by Miki Jourdan / Flickr
The cycle of protests that collectively became known as the “Arab Spring” were triggered by a desperate event outside a government building in the small Tunisian city of Sidi Bouzid in late December 2010, when Mohamad Bouazizi set fire to himself in an act of protest.
Mass demonstrations followed across Tunisia and quickly ricocheted across the Middle East and North Africa — expressions of young and old, men and women asserting their right to a life of dignity.
By early February, huge mobilizations had forced Tunisian and Egyptian dictators Zine El Abidine Ben Ali and Hosni Mubarak to resign. However, it’s a long road from regime change to social transformation as would become clear over the following years. And even such a preliminary victory would prove elusive for other countries in the region.
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