Involvement of the regime. We had initiated a project with the aim of giving the interested audience in Syria Journalists and lawyers an insight into the large number of un Conventions Syria had signed regarding refugees human rights and so on who will be inflicting it on. Syrian Human Rights Lawyer and while boonie paid a high price for this idea. And i can. Assure you the e. U. Put me in charge of this institution because i was very well known in syria as a Human Rights Lawyer and i had defended Political Prisoners under very difficult conditions since the one Nine Hundred Ninety s. A large office was rented on behalf of the e. U. They got computers and paid for all the equipment. I think. Twenty seven e. U. Representatives came to the opening including twelve ambassadors. Enough and in fact when in retrospect you ask yourself what the e. U. Is thinking they opened a Human Rights Center with me at the helm without really securing that politically. Those who know how the state works w
who was beating me so i wouldn t recognize them on the second day i was taken to prison and then i was put on trial. i was summoned to the foreign office and i was accused of interfering in syrian internal affairs. or the forty s i was to hold the project immediately which i did i narrowly avoided becoming a person non grata was. called. my was sentenced to five years. i was accused of conspiracy and founding an international organization that. the european parliament demanded the syrian authorities immediately release and
while boonie and other political activists and ensure they were not abused one in jail. need however to serve all five years of his sentence he was beaten abused and even threatened with death. the e.u. then pursued other avenues and policies it centered on the association agreement with syria to tie the country to europe economically because they needed bashar al assad in the region. india your own. european politicians started visiting damascus again the visitors might have felt like many other diplomats they knew about the human rights violations but they didn t see them the germans signed a financial agreement with syria in two thousand and eight alone twenty six million
they said they were looking for my father they dragged everyone out of their homes out into the cold and pajamas. they took us the worst thing was the children witnessed how these masked men with their guns came to our house and threatened us all to go on her. to call way. we got a message if you talk about these arrests in any way expect punishment might be. a was the. it was a terrible time for my family and if she and mike phelan can determine when they did everything they could to destroy us and break my father and. it s the last photo i did of them a few months later it was. the revolution things changed in syria.
involvement of the regime. we had initiated a project with the aim of giving the interested audience in syria journalists and lawyers an insight into the large number of un conventions syria had signed regarding refugees human rights and so on who will be inflicting it on. syrian human rights lawyer and while boonie paid a high price for this idea. and i can. assure you the e.u. put me in charge of this institution because i was very well known in syria as a human rights lawyer and i had defended political prisoners under very difficult conditions since the one nine hundred ninety s. . a large office was rented on behalf of the e.u. . they got computers and paid for all the equipment.