An unverified photo circulating online shows his disfigured face and suggests ... for Human Rights (SNHR). "Mazen was a gentle soul," Sara Afshar, a friend of Al-Hamada and the director of the ...

Plus: Mazen al-Hamada fled Syria to reveal the regime’s crimes. Then, mysteriously, he went back. For years, as the Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad maintained his brutal grip on the country ...

boyish face, high cheekbones, and all-consuming eyes, staring straight at the camera with a fearless expression. The man, Mazen al-Hamada, is regarded as a martyr by the rebels who deposed Assad ...