A few days after the Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad fled into exile, in December, an elderly woman sat on the sidewalk ...

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 ...

His face was smashed and his nose was broken," his sister Lamyaa said. A protester when the uprising in Syria began in 2011, Mazen Al-Hamada was arrested and tortured. Released in 2013 ...