On 9 December RR Managing Director, Dr Haytham Alhamwi, met Andrew Mitchell MP, Co-chair of the Syria All-Party Parliamentary Group
Mr Mitchell insisted that we should focus on making the political process successful. While we agreed, we informed Mr Mitchell that our top priority as Syrians is civilian protection primarily from Assad's barrel bombs.
On the margins of Amnesty UK’s Human Rights Day event at the Speaker's House in Parliament, Dr Haytham Alhamwi, RR managing director, had quick chats with the Labour Leader Jeremy Corbyn and Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell. The chats focused on the importance of stopping Assad’s barrel bombs to achieve any success in the political track.
Dr Haytham Alhamwi, RR's Managing Director, gave a speech at Amnesty UK’s Human Rights Day event at Speaker's House in Parliament on 9 December 2015.
Dr Alhamwi talked about the work of Amnesty through his experience as a political prisoner in Syria and as a relative of many prisoners of conscience.
Stop the War held an event on 9 December on Syria at Manchester University. We attended alongside members of the Syrian community and we relayed our concerns regarding the developments in the country. Particularly, we were concerned that out of a group of four panellists on Syria, only one of them mentioned the Assad regime.
On 8 December, a briefing written by Rethink Rebuild Society was used in Parliament to help advise MP’s on the use of torture in Syria, at the hands of both the Assad regime and other military groups. The briefing highlights the extensive range of gruesome, barbaric methods of torture inflicted on innocent Syrian civilians.
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