The unknown detainees of Syrian revolution

For more than a decade, the names of thousands of Syrian activists, defectors, and medics remain present in the memory of the revolution, while their bodies disappear into prisons and then mass graves, with no information about their fate.

The following are the names of five residents of Douma and Eastern Ghouta in the Damascus countryside, who were arrested by the former regime during the years of the revolution and whose whereabouts have been unknown for years...

Hazem Ibrahim Adas, born in Douma, is a Syrian karate champion and an active field medic at the beginning of the Syrian revolution. He was arrested in Damascus in 2013 while smuggling medical supplies to Eastern Ghouta under siege. Al Jazeera reported on his arrest in a special news report.

Abdul Karim Diaa al-Din al-Daghestani, a field photographer who documented the clashes and liberation, was arrested in 2013 while attempting to smuggle medical supplies out of the capital, Damascus.

Amer Sobhi Abdel Razzaq Mahmoud, one of the first activists working to secure the defection of military personnel from the areas surrounding Eastern Ghouta, was arrested in 2012 at the Al-Qutayfah checkpoint while escorting a defector.

Khaled Al-Dali, born in Douma in 1991, was forcibly disappeared after being arrested during the storming of the city in 2018 by regime forces and allied militias. His fate remains unknown.

Ahmed Al-Sheikh Bakri, born in Douma in 1992, was one of the first military defectors from the regime's army in 2011. He was arrested after Douma was reoccupied in 2018, and no information has been received about him since.

Despite the fall of the regime and the opening of prisons, no evidence or information has emerged documenting the fate of these young men or identifying the locations or executions of their loved ones.

These names remain part of the memory of the revolution, a testament to the ongoing crime of enforced disappearance and the absence of justice in a country drowning in blood and oblivion.