2011 - 2020 | Laureates | Sakharov Prize
Journalist and lawyer Razan Zaitouneh denounced human rights violations in Syria. Her struggle for freedom and democracy led to her kidnapping in 2013.
Journalist and lawyer Razan Zaitouneh denounced human rights violations in Syria. Her struggle for freedom and democracy led to her kidnapping in 2013.
A strange silence has followed the abduction of Syrian human rights activists in Eastern Ghouta.
The Syrian government is facing growing pressure to allow an international probe of an alleged chemical weapons attack on the outskirts of...
Her fight against injustice made her enemies on all sides of the war. Ten years after Syria's revolution, DW looks back on her life — and...
14 min read Among Syria's Revolutionaries Razan Zaitouneh and Colonel Akaidi understood how the Syrian revolution would go better than I did.
We pledge to fight impunity, as a basic guarantee for buildinga democratic state based on the separation of powers, the protection of humanrights and...
A writer and human rights lawyer who founded the Violations Documentation Centre in Syria (VDC) in 2011, Razan Zaitouneh was kidnapped on 9...
Five years after the kidnapping of human rights defender Razan Zaitouneh and her colleagues, 15 NGOs stand in solidarity to remember them...
We haven't lost hope for the return of Razan Zaitouneh, Wael Hamada, Samira al-Khalil and Nazem Hammadi.
A few dozen protesters gathered in the Syrian city of Douma on Wednesday to demand answers in the disappearance of four prominent activists who were abducted...
Human rights lawyer and activist, co‑founder of the Violations Documentation Center (VDC); prominent human rights defender and critic of the Syrian government (abducted in 2013; whereabouts long unknown).