Category Stories Of Caesar Victims

The Story of Oqba al-Mashaan

Report by Human Rights Watch Oqba al-Mashaan was 32 years old when he was arrested. He lived in the town of Mou Hassan, in Deir al-Zor governorate, where he worked as a government employee at the local agricultural department office.…

The Story of Khalid Hadla

From a Human Rights Watch Report Khalid Hadla was married and had three young children. He worked as a carpenter and lived in Daraya, near Damascus. According to Amer Hadla, Khalid’s brother who lives outside of Syria, Air Force Intelligence…

The Story of Rehab al-Allawi

From a Human Rights Watch Report Rehab al-Allawi, a Damascus resident originally from Deir al-Zor, was an engineering student at Damascus University before the uprising in Syria. Hers was the only published photograph of a woman, among the Caesar photographs…

The Story of Ayham Ghazzoul

From a Human Rights Watch Report Ayham Ghazzoul was a student at Damascus University pursuing a masters’ degree in dentistry and a human rights activist who worked with the Syria Center for Media and Freedom of Expression in Syria, as…