Weekly media digest

15 September 2021
SyriaUntold brings you the latest edition of our digest. We want to share with you the news, features, investigative pieces and long-form essays that we're reading this week.
Murder, and the burden of proof

06 January 2021
Murder turned into an act of self-defense, in which the regime and international community embarked on a selfish battle of describing the crime using terms such as civil war, the...
A tour across Syria's archipelago of torture

27 June 2018
What you say does not matter. What matters is that any person who sits on the flying carpet will get his share of beating for hours on end, depending on...
How Khalifa’s ‘The Shell’ Informed Political Awakening in Syria

21 November 2017
Before the revolution, Khalifa sometimes had regrets about writing 'The Shell'. But since then, “the revolution has obligated the regime to show off all the barbarism, without restriction, in front...
Spanish Court Case Tests the Challenges of Universal Jurisdiction on Syrians

02 October 2017
Guernica 37 lawyers Almudena Bernabau and Maite Parejo speak to SyriaUntold about the labyrinth of limitations on universal jurisdiction in national Spanish legislation.
Bassel Safadi: Killed for Being Two Steps Ahead of the Regime

24 August 2017
Perhaps the most dangerous thing about Bassel was that he could think as the regime thought, and could see reality the way it saw it.
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