Families For Freedom
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We are a women-led movement of families that demands that all arbitrarily detained and forcibly displaced Syrians are freed. We are 250 members across chapters in Syria, the UK, Germany, Turkey, and Lebanon. We have met senior policymakers in the UN and leading donor governments to advocate for justice. We run public digital campaigns demanding freedom for all of the country’s sons and daughters. Our position is against enforced disappearance and arbitrary detention by the Syrian regime and all parties to the conflict. We want to mobilize the public to pressure all sides to comply with our demands.
Our Demands:
We, as families, demand the immediate release of our relatives who have been unlawfully detained. And until then, we call on the Syrian regime and all warring sides, and all those who may influence them:
1. To immediately release a list of names of all detainees, along with their current locations and statuses, and to immediately stop torture and mistreatment. In the case of death of a detainee, a death certificate along with a report on causes of death and burial location must be presented to the families.
2. Pressure the Syrian government to allow international humanitarian organizations to immediately deliver food and medical aid, and to grant international rights groups access to detention facilities to closely monitor living conditions in order to guarantee civil detention facilities to meet healthy living standards.
3. Abolish exceptional courts, especially field, war, and counter-terrorism courts and guarantee fair trials under the supervision of the United Nations
4. Hold to account all those responsible from all sides, and particularly the Syrian government, for the violations they have committed and continue to commit against the arbitrarily detained and their families as an essential step toward justice.
We are a women-led movement of families that demands that all arbitrarily detained and forcibly displaced Syrians are freed. We are 250 members across chapters in Syria, the UK, Germany, Turkey, and Lebanon. We have met senior policymakers in the UN and leading donor governments to advocate for justice. We run public digital campaigns demanding freedom for all of the country’s sons and daughters. Our position is against enforced disappearance and arbitrary detention by the Syrian regime and all parties to the conflict. We want to mobilize the public to pressure all sides to comply with our demands.
Our Demands:
We, as families, demand the immediate release of our relatives who have been unlawfully detained. And until then, we call on the Syrian regime and all warring sides, and all those who may influence them:
1. To immediately release a list of names of all detainees, along with their current locations and statuses, and to immediately stop torture and mistreatment. In the case of death of a detainee, a death certificate along with a report on causes of death and burial location must be presented to the families.
2. Pressure the Syrian government to allow international humanitarian organizations to immediately deliver food and medical aid, and to grant international rights groups access to detention facilities to closely monitor living conditions in order to guarantee civil detention facilities to meet healthy living standards.
3. Abolish exceptional courts, especially field, war, and counter-terrorism courts and guarantee fair trials under the supervision of the United Nations
4. Hold to account all those responsible from all sides, and particularly the Syrian government, for the violations they have committed and continue to commit against the arbitrarily detained and their families as an essential step toward justice.
Amina Khoulani (SY) is a former educator and a civil society activist with a Master's degree in History and a Diploma in Education from Damascus University. She co-founded Darayya Youth Group for Peaceful Change, whose members were arrested by the regime in 2003. After the revolution, she was arrested with her family on the basis of their peaceful activism, she and her husband survived detention, but her three brothers are still under enforced disappearance by the Syrian regime. She is the co-founder and the general coordinator of Families for Freedom. Amina has briefed the United Nations Security Council on detention in Syria in 2019 and was awarded the International Women of Courage award by the US State Department in 2020.
Amina Khoulani (SY) is a former educator and a civil society activist with a Master's degree in History and a Diploma in Education from Damascus University. She co-founded Darayya Youth Group for Peaceful Change, whose members were arrested by the regime in 2003. After the revolution, she was arrested with her family on the basis of their peaceful activism, she and her husband survived detention, but her three brothers are still under enforced disappearance by the Syrian regime. She is the co-founder and the general coordinator of Families for Freedom. Amina has briefed the United Nations Security Council on detention in Syria in 2019 and was awarded the International Women of Courage award by the US State Department in 2020.