On a single day in 2013, the unknown swallowed the couple Fahed Al-Fandi and Hanan Al-Marzouqi without a trace. Hanan was standing in Marjeh Square in central Damascus, while Fahed was in the besieged Yarmouk camp, when all news of them was cut off. Since then, no one has known their fate,...

On March 11, 2013, hordes of military security personnel raided the home of Dr. Rania Al-Abbasi, a Syrian chess champion, and arrested her and her six children. This happened to be the home of Majdoleen Al-Qadi, a young woman who worked as a secretary in Dr. Rania's clinic. Her fate, like that...

The photo above shows Mohammad Hassan Na'san Agha, born in Idlib in 1954. He was arrested by members of the State Security Branch in Idlib on May 26, 1980, amid a violent security campaign targeting thousands of Syrians at that time. The branch was then under the command of Brigadier...

In 1975, brothers Arabi and Muhammad Jawhar were arrested without a warrant and without any knowledge of the true reason for their detention. Those years were part of one of the most brutal periods of repression in Syria, where prisons and detention centers were used as tools to silence...