{"id":378,"date":"2011-10-14T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-14T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","slug":"","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dchrs.org\/?p=378","title":{"rendered":"SYRIA: Political activist Yahia Sharbji"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<strong>Yahia Sharbji<\/strong>, political activist who believes in non-violence  solutions, was born on January, 21st, 1979 in Daryaa, Damascus County.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<br \/>\nYahiya studied in Science department at Damascus University,  but he did not continue his studies because he was arrested with a group of his  friends on May, 3rd, 2003. He was one of Daryya youth group, &nbsp;A group of  youth who are Muslims and they believed in non-violence solutions to all the  society problems through being active in different domains in life. This group  was active between 1989 and 2003.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<br \/>\nYahia spent three months and half in the branches(one month  in a cell by himself) of the security forces and his verdict was for four  years. He spent two years and half in prison and more than four months in a  cell by himself.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<br \/>\nYahia was&nbsp;harassed since then by the security forces  and he was prevented from travel.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<br \/>\nYahia sharbaji was one of the people who participated in the  sit-in in front of the&nbsp;interior&nbsp;ministry on March, 16th, 2011. He  could run away from the security forces after they took his ID and his cell  phone.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<br \/>\nYahia was one of the activists who organize demonstrations  in Daryya, Damascus County and he was one of the people who called for peaceful  demonstrations all the time. His famous words are:&quot;I prefer to be killed  to killing anyone&quot;&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<br \/>\nYahia was arrested by the security forces when he got a call  from his brother Ma&#8217;an Sharnbaji telling him that he was wounded and he needs  help. Yahia and his friend Ghiath Matart went to help Ma&#8217;an when they found the  security forces are waiting for them.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\n&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\n<strong>Yahia Sharbji<\/strong>, political activist who believes in non-violence  solutions, was born on January, 21st, 1979 in Daryaa, Damascus County.&nbsp;<span> <\/span><span> <\/span><span><span> <\/span><span> <\/span><\/span>Yahiya studied in  Science department at Damascus University, but he did not continue his studies  because he was arrested with a group of his friends on May, 3rd, 2003. He was  one of Daryya youth group, &nbsp;A group of youth who are Muslims and they  believed in non-violence solutions to all the society problems through being  active in different domains in life. This group was active between 1989 and  2003.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dchrs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dchrs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dchrs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dchrs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dchrs.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dchrs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dchrs.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dchrs.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dchrs.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}