Bahr Abdul Razzak

1/ On #InternationalWomensDay, let’s not forget that both online and offline spaces are becoming increasingly unsafe for women, whether in their home countries or exile.

A painful reality enabled by governments, private sector companies, and society alike.

News: WhatsApp says it has disrupted a spyware operation tied to surveillance company Paragon. The company tells me scores of users targeted, including journalists and civil society.

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YouTube video by ISIS Prisons Museum What is the ISIS Prisons Museum?

The ISIS Prisons Museum is a virtual space combining digital storytelling with interactive presentation to raise awareness about the crimes of ISIS and to help reveal the fate of those who disappeared in its prisons.You can visit the IPM website via the link
www.isisprisons.museum

#Syria #Iraq

YouTube video by ISIS Prisons Museum Talal al-Shuweimi Testimony Stadium Prison شهادة طلال الشويمي عن سجن الملعب

Though Talal al-Shuweimi spent only seven days in the Stadium Prison, he revealed critical information about the conditions of detention and the torture that prisoners endured there.

Court order text. Link to follow

Court order text. Link to follow

Court order text. Link to follow

Court order text. Link to follow

BREAKING: court finds NSO Group liable for #Pegasus hacking of #WhatsApp users.

Big win for spyware victims.

Big loss for NSO.

Bad time to be a spyware company.

Landmark case. Huge implications. 1/ 🧵

There is a general amnesty on everyone who were part of the regime. Only those who killed civilians should be afraid, because they will be trialed, and justice will be served.

DAMASCUS:

In the heart of Damascus, panic this moment in the Malki area. Assad's main residence is located here, the area is fortified with regime forces that are now fleeing.

This is clearly the regime falling apart at it's very core.

The prisoners have been freed from Qatana Prison in rural Damascus, and the detainees have been released.

Syria is witnessing a historic moment as its people rise once again, pushing for liberation from the oppressive Assad regime. Cities like Daraa, Hama, Aleppo, Sweida, and Quneitra are reclaiming their freedom. Now, freedom is at the doors of Damascus.

BREAKING:

Reports that rebels in the city of Daraa have taken over the notorious airforce intelligence branch, following a withdrawal of Assad's forces from Museifra area east of the city.

If true, extremely significant, and marks a new phase in a war that is only a week old.

Swaida, a city in southern Syria which is home to the Druze religious minority, are out in the thousands demonstrating their support of the Syrian rebellion against the Assad regime.

The sectarian divisions that Assad was successful in fueling amongst Syrians is falling apart.

Only Syrians truly grasp the significance of Hafez Al Assad's statue head battered on the road like this.

When he died in 2000, essentially handing over power to Bashar (his son) Syrians were whispering to each other the news, scared shitless even after he was gone.

How a Russian man’s harrowing tale shows the physical dangers of spyware Citizen Lab and a Russian exile-led human rights group investigated spyware implanted on his phone after he was detained, beaten up and released.

And here is @timstarks.bsky.social's report

cyberscoop.com/russian-surv...

No Escape: The Weaponization of Gender for the Purposes of Digital Transnational Repression - The Citizen Lab Building upon our prior research and the contributions of other scholars to this field, the aim of this novel study is to understand the security risks and harms caused by digital transnational repres...

NEW REPORT: We investigate the rising trend of gender-based digital transnational repression by drawing on the lived experiences of 85 women human rights defenders living in exile across the globe.
Read the full report: citizenlab.ca/2024/12/the-...

🚨NEW INVESTIGATION: When Kirill Parubets was released from a harrowing detention by 🇷🇺#Russia's FSB, he got his phone back..

It was covertly bugged with spyware...

New @citizenlab.ca investigative collab w/legal aid org First Dept.

READ: citizenlab.ca/2024/12/devi... #infosec #cybersecurity

Amnesty International says genocide is occurring in Gaza, an accusation Israel rejects Amnesty International accused Israel of committing genocide in the Gaza Strip during its war with Hamas, saying it has sought to deliberately destroy Palestinians by mounting deadly attacks, demolishi...

In a new report nearly 300 pages, Amnesty International details evidence of Israel committing genocide in Gaza. Israel rejects the accusation
www.ctvnews.ca/world/amnest...

The audacity to claim concern for children in Gaza while shamelessly ignoring the same atrocities inflicted on children in Syria is nothing short of revolting. Integrity is standing by both victims, whatever the cost, otherwise you're just exploiting their suffering for an agenda.

Yesterday, #Russia bombed #Aleppo's largest hospital inside Aleppo university
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zeD...

Around 3 pm today, airstrikes reportedly hit 5 medical facilities in #Idlib City, #Syria, incl. 4 hospitals (one with a maternity ward). Flight data from @SentrySyria shows two Russian aircraft departed Hmeimim and circled above the opposition-held city at the time of the strikes.
Via: x.com/trbrtc

For many Syrians standing in full solidarity with the people of Gaza was not a choice but an imperative. Even when it meant that we would rally alongside the very scum who aided Assad in the mass murder of our people, we still did it. I expect no less from conscious Palestinians.

A letter to the government of #Iraq

#Aleppo

A Russian airstrike targeted the Christian-majority Sulaymaniyah neighborhood in Aleppo, Syria.

The airstrikes were near the church.

Safi Al-Yassin was detained in the prisons of the Assad regime for 13 years in the city of Aleppo.

After the opposition factions took control of the prisons in the city, they released him.

I am always wary of any military giving its take on how a country should look moving forward, but this is definitely worth watching.

A ranking officer from anti-Assad’s forces speaks directly to the residents of Aleppo:

(Part 1)
Source: @faredalmahlool.bsky.social

Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Aleppo confirmed that Sunday prayers went forward as usual in Aleppo today

Bishop Maalouli had this to say:

"We are fine and will remain in Aleppo alongside our parishioners in all circumstances, We assure you that prayers continue in churches."

The real terrorists are now rolling in from Baghdad to Damascus to kill Syrians on their own land and save Assad's crumbling regime.

Iran is a terrorist state.

The moment Idlib's University Hospital was bombed by Syrian regime forces.

Translation from @ramijarrah.bsky.social

In light of the current circumstances in Syria and the challenges posed by the regime’s criminal attempts to undermine our efforts to maintain stability in the country, we reaffirm through the Political Affairs Administration of the Syrian Rescue Government our full commitment to protecting all landmarks, heritage and cultural centers, churches, and the various schools in the city of Aleppo. We are working tirelessly to ensure the continuation of normal life in the city of Aleppo and to protect the rights of civilians from all Syrian sects and communities. We reaffirm that the future Syria we aspire to build will be a reconciled homeland for all its citizens. We will not allow any party to destroy the fabric of our society or negatively impact the safety of these institutions.

Commitment to protecting all landmarks, heritage and cultural centers, churches, and the various schools in the city of Aleppo

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For those who doesn't know the "Smart Card" its a card which the regime used to allow civilians to buy bread or fuel. limiting what people can purchase per week