We co-hosted an exhibition alongside Amnesty International's Manchester branch on 8 September in Cross Street Chapel. This planning for this exhibition was headed mostly by Syrian women from the community who either were former detainees in Assad's prisons or who have relatives currently in detention.
A statement issued by the 'Save Our Syria' platform on 30 August amplifies the work done by Rethink Rebuild Society regarding the International Day for the Victims of Enforced Disappearance. This statement includes the stance of Syrian civil society towards the detainee issue and outlines some core demands that Syrians have on behalf of the countless missing detainees.
A video released on 30 August highlights Manchester residents' reactions to harrowing statistics describing detention in Syria. Special thank you to Sophia Grace Marshall and to Elena Cotton from Manchester University for their time in putting together this video and interviewing passers by.
To mark the International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearance, an article was released on 30 August in The Guardian, with input from Rethink Rebuild Society and Amnesty International, to highlight the plight of disappeared women in Assad regime's prisons.
In a letter addressed and delivered on 30 August - International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearance - to the High Commissioner for Human Rights, local civil society and human rights organizations called for an end of the tragedy of tens of thousands of forcibly disappeared people in Syria, and for the support by all possible means to the International, Impartial an
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