ِSham Leaves - issue No. 11

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Editorial team

Editor

Mohammed Abo Sham

Editorial team

Ahmed Al-dimashki

Faridah Ahmed

Sarah Damas

Saif Al-sham

Abo Omar Al-midani

Linguistic checker

Manar Al-arabi

Translators

Yasmin Khaled

Nemo Code

Alia Al-shami

Art director

Ram Hasan

Issue)11(

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Editorial

Elections.. but!..............

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Investigation

Education Obstacles in The Shadow of War.............

Landmarks from my Country

Deir ez-Zor Suspension Bridge................

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Demanded Reform or a Community Culture............

Detained Story

Detainees Diary..............

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Political analysis

After the Arab Spring................

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Revolution jurisprudence

Regulations of Takfir...............

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Know the enemy (1)

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In This Issue :

It was not surprising that Bashar al-Assad present himself for a third presidential tenure with several options and an implicitly predetermined result.This «farce» election in an old – new attempt by the regime to restore Syria to the same era of Egypt dur-ing the ousted president’s, Hosni Mubarak, ruling, when nominal presidential elections, with incompatible candidates who could not face the public forgery, took place. It was the same case with the parliamentary elections, when the ruling National Democratic Party was in control through fictitious elections, in addition to the media, which appeared to be criticizing the ruling authorities within certain limits.

Five decades ago, when Al Assad has issued the Parties’ Law which gave the right of establishing political parties competing with the Baath Party, up to the pluralism in the presidential elections, and other laws such as not to arrest citizens without a warrant and media freedom, and other laws - which came late after years of being claimed of - it was expected not to apply any of them. Al Assad tries to create a new regime that appears to be pluralistic but keeps the core structure of the state and its components to be controlled by his Alawite community security personnel, through businessmen, merchants and religious men in the shape of a slave-master relationship, and not even an ally to achieve economic or ideological goals. These attempts, of course, did not work then, rather they were met with categorical rejection by the rebels, because the goal since the beginning of the revolution, when the number of martyrs and the great destruction as well as the destruction of the social fabric were not as they are now, was to overthrow the regime and its components, that was working on settling the current situation through changing the text of the law but not its core.

Despite what has been mentioned above, there was a lot of talk in the revolution’s media about holding these farce elections especially under such circumstances where millions of Syrians are displaced inside Syria or refugees out of it in addition to hundreds of thousands of detainees and lost people, and what has been said about the legitimacy of Al Assad’s candidacy «legally» for these elections, both in terms of committing crimes against humanity. There have been therefore discussions about his candidacy to a third tenure despite his deep involvement in these crimes as well as about the nationality of his non-Syrian wife.

To be engaged in the controversies and debates, both amongst the rebels themselves, or even amongst “op-ponents” and «supporters» of Bashar al-Assad, is falling in the trap of these farce elections. The simple act of saying that Bashar al-Assad is not eligible to present his candidacy, or search for legal loopholes to challenge the legality of his candidacy and then later electing him, is legitimizing the step itself.Thus debating the action would be as if a political party is trying to soil the reputation of another party’s candidate, while we enjoy social, economic, security and political stability and that the problem is about the candidate and his prospects and not about his existence.

Currently, the problem is not related to the candidates, their number, the law that the elections will be based on or even the jurisdictions of the upcoming president. The real problem lies in the elections themselves, with Bashar Al Assad at the Muhajireen Palace, organizing farce elections, against farced candidates in a farce atmosphere, supported by farce people in farce Syria Al Assad.

Editorial

Elections.. but!

Media Office Team


by: Abo Al Abd

Education Obstacles in The

Shadow of War

Investigation

Proud spirits have woken up from their slumber, to find chaos and destruction all around, so they had to choose one of two paths; either to go back to their deep sleep or to get up and overcome all the de-struction, marking the beginning of a new era. “The People want the fall of the regime”, but what would come after! In the beginning, we were just seeking to topple the regime, but with the continuation of the revolution for a long time and the emergence of suc-cessive stages, the need for an “alternative regime” was so clear in liberated areas. So, are we capable of finding an alternative?The Beginning of the IdeaToday, we would like to highlight the idea of “find-ing an alternative” in the field of “education”. The military action did not leave any room for children to continue their education; schools were bombed, resi-dents were displaced and day after day we waited to return, but hopes were too distant from reality. A group of mindful and well-educated cadres sought to engage children in an educational activity after they have been away from schools for one or two years. War sounds and the loss of families and be-loved ones had a negative impact on children’s men-tal health. Therefore, the need to contain them in institutions that care for them and heal their hearts arose again.ObstaclesIt wasn’t easy; so many difficulties hindered the edu-cational process in liberated areas. Those difficulties can be summed up in the following:

The problem of choosing and setting up the place. Public schools were exposed to the regime and were relatively subject to massive shelling, therefore it was better to find safe basements. The other prob-lem was equipping these basements, something that would cost a lot to organize. Setting up a 1000-sqa-ure meter basement would cost 500 thousand Syrian Pounds. After cleaning and preparing basements, the next stage started which includes providing equipment, desks and necessary tools. Since these equipment are already found at public schools, special groups were formed to transfer those equipment to special warehouses and later to the basements being pre-pared. This was not an easy process under the condi-tions of the war.Later, the stage of developing teaching and manage-ment cadres started. In the beginning, a number of people interested in this kind of work volunteered and after some time, things started to be better orga-nized, so we have now alternative schools with man-agements and female teachers. It is noteworthy that females were a essential component of the teaching staff. Women’s efforts in the dynamics of the soci-ety is visible, their participation added a lot for the revolution since the beginning. Special courses for the cadres in education were held by specialists and rehabilitation of cadres is ongoing. When the work started the problem of the curriculum arose. Most of the alternative revolutionary schools used the old curriculum, deleting anything related

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to the head of the regime, and making some scien-tific modifications. However the available books were very little, especially those of the preparatory and secondary grades.The Financial obstacle: When the work expanded, there was an urgent need to provide a financial sup-port for its success. In reality, education is one of the revolutionary activities that received financial support because many supporting parties were convinced of its importance. However, the support was inconsis-tent and insufficient, especially under such difficult living conditions that most students suffer. For exam-ple, kids were unable to have breakfast, the most im-portant meal of the day, which prevented them from interacting in the lessons or understanding them. Some education entities in East Gota, provided stu-dents in a number of schools with a breakfast, once every two or three days. That was a success story and an effective solution and even attractive one, es-pecially for those who intended to drop out of educa-tion under the absence of the state where there’s no enforcement of any binding laws or constitutions.Liberated areas have been divided into districts, each governed by a military force, with an ideological or regional perspective. Each area tried to enforce its

own laws, which it deems appropriate to education. So they modified the curricula; set up structures and prepared places, and so on, but an important ques-tion was looming: “recognition of certificates.” Would studying in the schools affiliated to certain institu-tions or groups ultimately provide them with official papers that can be accredited when they move to an upper grade? What are the terms and conditions? And who sets these conditions? Recently, the interim government suggested a solu-tion to this problem, by having examinations within the framework of the Ministry of Education in the in-terim government, many of the revolutionary parties have committed to this, but we still need a better solution.In Conclusion, many of the staffs agreed to teach and rehabilitate students who lost access to education. Despite the difficult circumstances and that recog-nition of certificate and documents of moving from one grade to another is not guaranteed, but the core principle is to raise the educational, ethical and scien-tific level of students. When things in community are better, the problem can be solved by conducting a “level test” so that our children can then pursue their education in a better future.


Our grandfathers’ feet treaded on its plates cross-ing the Euphrates in Deir Ez-Zor. It stood witness to the tales of colonialism. Its proud beauty mirrored the beauty of the Euphrates Bride. Its parts held tightly together through its cables that defied the winds and endured the passing of time. It was the hanging pearl of Deir Ez-Zor and one of its prominent landmarks.

The French built the bridge on the Euphrates in the early 1920s. With its unique design and remarkable beauty, it became a symbol of the city. The French used it to transport their equipment from and to Al-Jazira, east of Syria.

As the second suspension bridge in the world )the first was located in the south of France), it was built with a western style by the French Construction and Contracting Company. Its construction took six years and was finished in March 1931.

The bridge comprised of four thirty-six-meters-high posts connected to each other with steel stays in a beautiful and firm way. It was 450 meters long and 4 meters wide. It had openings onto the river )105 meters long each( and two side openings.

The bridge cost one and a third million Syrian pounds at the time. In 1955 it was painted in green and adorned with beautiful lights reflecting onto the river.

Local people were cautious regarding the bridge as it shook beneath vehicles, pedestrians and cam-els. Traffic through the bridge was controlled by two clerks at the two ends. Since the bridge was nar-row, clerks would communicate through a telephone to prevent vehicles from meeting in the middle so that one would have to go the whole way back. This method continued till 1980s.

by : Iris Muhammad

Landmarks from my Country

Deir ez-Zor Suspension

Bridge


Considering the simple techniques used in its con-struction at the time, the bridge was an architec-tural masterpiece. It was designed and built by the French; however, many local people were killed in the process, while constructing the concrete posts.

On Thursday, May 2, 2013, according to activists Assad’s forces blew the bridge up. Other sources state that the bridge was bombarded by Assad forc-es, which resulted in its collapse. The shelling, the

sources say, targeted “Al Husseinya” area, controlled by the Free Syrian Army, following news of some FSA troops crossing the bridge on that day.

On that unfortunate day, people of Deir ez-Zor mourned their bridge like one of their martyrs. Their hearts would sing: Deir ez-Zor is ours; the Bridge is ours; with our hands we will free our land. With our own arms we will build the bridge again. We will, O Euphrates, wash away the trace of the barbaric feet!


Article

Almost all countries of the world have an indepen-dence day they celebrate every year. Every child does his best to become independent from his parents and prove that he is able to do thing on his own, so he starts to eat, drink and dress by himself. The older they come, the more that tendency grow through making personal relationships and having personal possessions. So we can say that independence is a motive in life.

Any revolution would seek independence, however throughout the process, some people, unintentionally, find themselves in dependency of some kind. That’s can be because dependency is deeply rooted in sub-missive people and that there’s no freedom without independence and dependency conflicts with both.

This dependency has several manifestations justified

by shaken people with “the sense of belonging”, so they justify obvious misdeeds and find flimsy excuses just because they are affiliated to the wrongdoer, be him a commander, director, reference or whatsoever, but slavery remains the same.

Independence must be achieved at all levels. Ulti-

mate freedom cannot be achieved by a people unless its independence is fulfilled, and real independence will not be fulfilled without the independence of decision of each individual in society where everyone complies with rightness and not overlook wrongdoings based on the doer. The wrongdoer must be criticized and held accountable regardless of their status or rank.

Independence, just like other human characteristics, has grades and levels. Ultimate independence is called freedom which is the opposite of slavery, and in be-tween lies countless levels.

The worst type of subjection is the affiliation to cer-

tain individuals and agreeing with their deeds, wheth-er wrong or write, and that is clear to everyone. How-ever, a hidden type is subjection to the general trend and dominant norms, rejecting any new and creative idea whether they are right or wrong. That was de-scribed in the saying of Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him, as obsequious subordinate, doing the right thing if people are doing the right, and doing wrong if people are doing wrong. So, only who has free opin-ions and independent decision can be different from the above described type, especially that path of right-ness is difficult and less traveled.

We learn from history that only those with indepen-

dent decisions and actions, who followed the less trav-eled paths were able to add to mankind, and their names became immortal.

Some people follow their friends, tribes or money, all

of which different faces of slavery. Therefore, be righteous even if you find yourself

alone. Do not follow your whims because you will go astray. Be independent, think wisely and deeply; do not be influenced by others and always remember that rightness must be your compass.

Raji Al Faraj

Demanded Reform or a community culture !


Time was full of sorrows and agonies there, where silence is the only spoken language, and everyone around is in the world of oblivion.

I lived through those days where your breath is held to the extent of death... That Saturday, when I was deep asleep, suddenly the door was horribly knocked. Immediately I got up hearing the security forces voices saying “Get in! We want no one out-side”.

I started fast to gather the documents and the rent contracts of the relief office to hide them and to hide every single thing related to the revolution. However, time was too short. They broke the door. They were more than 20 heavily-armed agents led by a per-son who was wearing sunglasses with a shield on his chest.

He drew closer to me and said “Why didn’t you open the door? Are you trying to escape or to hide?”

I said “I was sleeping”.He replied “liar!”. When he looked to my ID, he

recognized that I am man he was after. He pointed to the agents to shackle me and take me down to the car.

I had a last look at everything around me… I was full of fear inside asking myself “Am I going to come back to my home, or neighborhood?” We got the car, they said “pull your t-shirt up and cover your face with it, and keep your head down to the ground, or we’ll kill you.”

We were waiting for the other agents to come back to their cars, because they were checking my home and looking for evidence. After two hours in the car, they brought another detainee. And after we got there, they started hitting and insulting us.

They covered our eyes, and one of them said “lis-ten! Take your t-shirts off and look at me!” then, an-other one came with my own laptop and asked me to give him my Facebook and Skype accounts and my passwords. After that, they took us to give our personal belongings and they inspected us by taking all our cloths off with continuing insults.

The investigation started, the torture series started. The investigator was torturing me by each and every means like hitting on the face, and the rest of the body, kicking, and electrocuting to the extent that I admitted what they want me to say.

They weren’t satisfied with those ways of torturing. So, they tied my hands up with the top of an iron door and didn’t let my feet touch the ground. This is called “shabeh”. I was getting unconscious every now and then out of tiredness, exhaustion, and the psychological shock. I saw through the eye blind two other persons who were tortured the same way, I couldn’t utter a word because the security agents were there.

I stayed tied up like this for five days, but they un-tied me when I had to eat or go to the bathroom. I heard the voices of the new detainees being tortured. By the end of the fifth day, the investigator untied me and took me to the special investigation office. He took off my eye blind and said “Kneel down!” He gave me a pen and a written statement. The scenario was ready, only the actor was missing. And he started to dictate me what I should write including that I went to protests and filmed them as well as being a relief activist and financing armed people.

The process took an hour ended up with a finger print on the statement, then they took me back where I was tied up. In the evening, the investigator came with the officer who was the manager of the section, then he told them to take me to the prison. He untied me and took off my eye blind and took me to the prison. When he opened the door, it was full to the extent that people clung to the door.

I saw among the detainees some of my friends who were arrested long time ago. I asked them where I was. They said that I was in the security branch )political section in Al-jebbeh(. Up to that moment I couldn’t believe that I was a detainee as though I would wake up of that nightmare and be back in my own room.

We were about a hundred people, and because of

Detained Story

by : Sarah Damas

Detainees Diary


the crowd I was sleeping on three tiles. The food was meager. I stayed like this for 44 days, then they called for me for a new investigation and they cov-ered my eyes again.

They put me in a tire in order not to move, they lift my feet up and started to hit me heavily. They called it the “wind rug”, but I called it the death rug. All of that was to confess that I was armed!! The investi-gator said “Look! All those who get to this section should confess that they were armed and were fight-ing with the terrorists. So you’d better confess” and under intense torture I did. The investigator wrote an immediate statement and they forced me to put my fingerprint on what I said. All that was left of me was a broken, exhausted body waiting for death.

I stayed 100 days in the prison, then the guard called me with my staff. I had seconds of hope and dreams, are they going to set me free? Am I go-ing back to my family and friends? But it was just a dream.

They transferred me to another political security section in )Al-Fayha( with 10 other detainees. And they started welcoming us again to the 55th day when they summoned me for another investigation to continue the series of torture.

The mission of that section was to )extend the

statement) and they let me impress my fingerprint again. I stayed there for four months, but my body couldn’t endure anymore. It started to collapse and collapse. Infections spread on my whole body, my eyes were totally closed, and what made it worse was the lack of hygiene.

They transferred me to the military court because I confessed I used arms. Another person was with me in this case, we didn’t know each other. But we didn’t see the judge because he transferred the case to the court of terrorism as a result of not finding any evidence.

They took us to the military police where we spent two days. Then to the investigation judge of the court of terrorism. He asked me some questions related to the statement, but I denied everything and told him that I confessed under torture. However, the judge didn’t believe me and didn’t order my release. On the contrary, he issued an arrest warrant against me.

They set me free after a year and three months of transferring from a security section to another, then I finally stayed in Adra prison for eight months.

I can describe this experience as a hell on Earth, and thanks God for saving me from the tyrants. And I pray to God all the time to set every detainee free and to grant us victory and freedom.

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The elections› season from Iraq to Algeria seem as a harmonic symphony with melodies of the roar of soldiers› footsteps and guarantees of weapons. In the new presidential term in Algeria there is a new declaration of the Algerian victory twenty years ago when the Arab armies coming to Algeria met and the national will receded to the mountains. What an inspiring scene for the military in Egypt and for the those who hold power in Iraq , and Syria is not far from this inspiration, though the allies may change.

The international community – led by USA - could not act deaf for long and pretend not to hear the dem-onstrators› voices in Cairo squares at the beginning of 2011, while acting deaf and blind toward the bru-talities committed by the military institution in Egypt since mid-2013 making a joke out of all western val-ues most prominent among which is democracy and human rights. The question is «Why didn’t the USA

turn a blind eye from the very beginning? Why didn’t the military get the green light to bury the revolution when it started before the dream came true and the people tasted its beauty? Certainly, fixing the foun-dations of a solid rule which is based on established security institutions as Mubarak›s regime would have been easier than having a coup on a democratic rule which is based on a publicly-supported authority as the coup against Mursi was. The truth, however, can be grasped as a whole without recognizing the changes that have occurred in the whole scene in the Arab region. These changes will help us understand the paradoxical international stance.

A revolution in Morocco ends up giving the ruling monarchy even more legitimacy while the revolution in Yemen ended up with no results for the people part from strengthening the power of the political opposition without any substantial shift in the for the

Political analysis

by : Noor Bitar

After the Arab Spring, Is It the Rulers’ Spring?


tribal and class structure. In Libya, the revolution Gaddafi turned the revolution into a war that opened the doors to all the intelligences institutions. The re-sult was imbalance and disorder that would last for a while. Tunisia is not providing the support for which other revolutions aspired. In the meanwhile, the Gulf States support all the authoritarian regimes hoping to stop the wind of change from reaching them. The most honest representation of this new rulers’ alli-ance was the Arab summit in Kuwait where rulers found it necessary to unite to face their common en-emy: the rebellious masses.

Undoubtedly, the international stance assumed a new approach toward the change process in the Mid-dle East in which major players seem more daring, have a better grasp of the era, and are more reas-sured that their interests› are in good hands with the old guards. This change did not manifest itself only in turning a blind eye, but also in implicit approval and sincere advice which explain why Arab rulers wore their old faces again. This change can be understood by taking note of some facts that have been revealed by the Arab spring revolutions until today:

• Islam is the custom of the public and the unri-valled winner in the clean electoral process even in the countries marked as secularists and westernized as Tunisia.

• The clear division between rulers and peoples which the revolutions instilled in the collective con-sciousness increases the rulers’ rush to the foreign support and security. This gives them higher lever-age for extortion making the endurance of the old guard a foreign interest which allows the forbidden and requires turning a blind eye.

• The public’s reaction to brutal repression is re-stricted to local bitterness, which means the fall of international fears from a pan-Arab revolutionary tide that may be able to at least partially remove the borders. This local mentality gives assurance to the international community that the borders are secure

and deeply established in the formative structure of Arab societies.

It is true that the ongoing war in Syria was able to cripple the revolutionary tide for some time, but reality is being reshaped in Syria too. Along with the change in the international position toward the Arab revolutions there is also a change in the peoples’ awareness and their stance of the rulers and the in-ternational community, too.

Signs of this change might not be visible because of its depth. But, surely, its impact would make itself visible in the future as it would tilt the balance of in-terests, the subordination model will disappear, and narrow affiliations would subside as the concept of ‘nation’ advances. This change will give the people their identity and a common project and strip the oil wells from their local privilege, and reconstruct the identity of Arabs with the deserved dignity from the Holy Book. As for the silence before the criminality of tyranny, it reflects fear and an acknowledgement of the opponent’s greatness. Neutrality is an attempt to retain diplomatic means of change of position.

The victory of a revolution is a starting point for another revolution. That was before Syria. Now as the stakes go higher in the Syrian revolution and the Arab rulers persist in their contempt of the masses, bitterness increases. Therefore, the victory of the Syrian revolution will mark the collapse of the au-thoritarian fortress altogether not by the dominos ef-fect but all at once given the magnitude of change in the growing awareness across borders and barriers. The rulers› spring in the elections› season is com-mitting foolery by missing the opportunity to normal-ize their relation with the public. Instead, they are reinforcing the division between rulers and people. The result is further instilling the oneness of destiny for peoples and rulers alike so the Syrian revolution will become the revolution of all the free nations and peoples.


Dr. Ahmad Fuad Shmeis

Regulations of Takfir

As we are urged to seek knowledge, we must ask what the Islamic regulations for excommunication are and whether it is a public right for any Muslim or the responsibility of leaders and scholars.

The answer would be that a Muslim remains such unless evidence is established otherwise as proph-et Mohammed )pbuh( said “Whoever prays like we pray, faces our Qibla, slaughters like we slaughter is a Muslim and shall have the same rights and duties as ourselves”.

Before labeling any Muslim as a ‘kafir’, his acts and sayings must be scrutinized closely. For not any wrong saying or act makes a Muslim into a kafir.

People must avoid this practice and leave it to scholars because it is a grave matter.

Suspicion of kufr is not to be reckoned with. A Mus-lim is not considered to have cast out faith unless they deny what made they them embrace it in the first place. Hence, firm belief in Islam is not shaken by doubt. When a case has multiple interpretations implying kufr and one that does not, a scholar must use this one interpretation because it is a grave mat-ter and the rule is to give people the benefit of the doubt. Kufr implies utmost punishment and hence requires utmost certainty of culpability which is not the case when this is based on doubt or probability.

To be considered kafir, a Muslim must be a free-ly-choosing adult when committing an act of Kufr. Hence, a young boy or an insane man cannot be ac-cused of kufr, nor those who are asleep or otherwise unconscious because they have no religious obliga-tions in such cases so their acts and sayings are not to be reckoned with.

Furthermore, those forced to practice kufr while their faith is intact within their hearts. “except for one who is forced [to renounce his religion] while his heart is secure in faith” Surat Al-Nahl, verse 106, Holy Quran.

Scholars agree that if a drunk person who was not aware he was consuming alcohol says or does any-thing entailing Kufr while drunk is not to be consid-

ered to have committed apostasy. But scholars have varied views on a drunk person who drank alcohol intently.

The parameters of Kufr are:• Kufr by convictionScholars agree that whoever believes in kufr inter-

nally is a kafir but they are not to be judged for apos-tasy unless they declare this belief.

Also, whoever intends to renounce religion in the future or hesitates in doing so is considered a kafir already as by intending to become one he no longer believes. But he would not be judged unless he de-clares kufr as well.

• Kufr by wordsScholars agree that whoever says something that

makes them kafir become one whether they say it by way of mockery, stubbornness or actual belief as Allah says “Say: «Was it at Allah, and His signs, and His Messenger, that ye were mocking? Make ye no excuses: ye have rejected faith after ye had accepted it.” )Surat At-Tawba, verses: 64-65(. This applies to direct or indirect statements entailing kufr through renouncing faith, one of Allah’s characteristics or any of the religion’s rulings.

However, if a statement entailing kufr is said with-out intention or by mistake, the person is not con-sidered a Kafir because forgetfulness, unintended mistakes and lack of choice are forgiven.

Scholars also agree that whoever curses God or mocks him is a kafir but they differ in whether his repentance is acceptable as most scholars say it is acceptable.

Most scholars agree that whoever curses the proph-ets or the angels or calls the Prophet’s companions disbelievers is considered a kafir unless they repent.

People who deny a universally known Islamic rule are considered kafir unless the rule is not universally known or is controversial.

In all cases, claims of kufr must be referred to the judge who would make a ruling based on evidence.

Revolutionjurisprudence


Hide your stuff, because security might nock on your door..

Delete your SMSs, and be aware of Shabiha! Most activists spend their long days in media, med-

ical or aid provision activities and sometimes some peaceful activity. All in one day. After all of this tiring work, at the end of the day, the activist, exhausted, would lie on his/ her bed as if he achieved a dream.. Usually they would forget their personal computers or facebook accounts open, telling themselves:

“Tomorrow is another day! Nobody would come at this late hour. Security won’t come in such a time”

But we tell them.. Don’t you know your enemy? Do you know that more than half of the raids made

by Syrian regime security personnel take place after midnight?

Do you know that security personnel deliberately come after midnight to find the wanted person for sure?

And that night raids are made by the fiercest secu-rity branches.

And that security personnel have arrested dozens of activists that way red-handed, because carelessly, they would not log off their accounts or hide their files.

Do you know that logging off and signing in later would take only a minute, and because of your lazi-ness you may cause a disaster for yourself and the revolution.

This is a daily reality.. So, don’t be on the list of careless activists, who

get arrested by security agents red-handed, so they don’t have any possibility to deny, nor to spare their partners.

Be smart and fully aware..

In order not to be part of a new harmful reality… Know your enemy! And be careful before you go to

sleep, and as the famous Syrian saying goes “Eat them for lunch before they eat you for dinner”

i.e. act preemptively before it’s too late.

Raid at The Door

Know the enemy)1(

Revolution Office for Security Counseling


Revolution policeman

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