{"id":499,"date":"2012-03-20T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-03-20T00:00:00","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=499","title":{"rendered":"Hearing on the Human Rights Crisis in Syria"},"content":{"rendered":"

Please Click here to Read the Hearing Details – PDF<\/a><\/p>\n

Hearing<\/strong><\/p>\n

Tuesday, March 27, 2012<\/strong>
\n 9:30 AM \u2013 11:00 AM<\/strong>
\n Rayburn B-318<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n Please join the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission for a hearing on the human rights crisis in Syria.  <\/p>\n

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Please Click here to Read the Testimony of : Maria McFarland, Deputy Washington Director, Human Rights Watch<\/a><\/p>\n

Please Click here to Read the Testimony of : Suzanne Nossel, Executive Director, Amnesty International USA<\/a><\/p>\n

Please Click here to Read the Testimony of : Andrew Tabler, Next Generation Fellow, Washington Institute for Near East Policy<\/a><\/p>\n

Please Click here to Read the Testimony of : Radwan Ziadeh, Visiting Scholar, Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University<\/a><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Since March 2011, growing numbers of anti-government protests in Syria have been met with a brutal crackdown by the Syrian government, including widespread killings, torture, and indiscriminate shelling of cities. More than 8,000 people have been killed, and over 200,000 people have been displaced. The Syrian government is even using landmines as a deadly tactic to prevent civilians from escaping.<\/p>\n

This hearing will examine the systemic and grave human rights abuses by the Syrian government, and the impact of those abuses on the Syrian people.<\/p>\n

The following witnesses will testify:<\/u><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Panel I<\/u>
\n \u00b7         Robert Ford, U.S. Ambassador to Syria<\/p>\n

Panel II<\/u>
\n \u00b7         Maria McFarland, Deputy Washington Director, Human Rights Watch
\n \u00b7         Suzanne Nossel, Executive Director, Amnesty International USA
\n \u00b7         Andrew Tabler, Next Generation Fellow, Washington Institute for Near East Policy
\n \u00b7         Radwan Ziadeh, Visiting Scholar, Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University<\/p>\n

If you have any questions, please contact the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission at 202-225-3599 or tlhrc@mail.house.gov<\/a>.<\/p>\n

James P. McGovern<\/p>\n

Member of Congress<\/p>\n

Co-Chair, TLHRC<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

Frank R. Wolf <\/p>\n

Member of Congress <\/p>\n

Co-Chair, TLHRC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Please Click here to Read the Hearing Details – PDF<\/a><\/p>\n

Please Click here to Read the Testimony of : Maria McFarland, Deputy Washington Director, Human Rights Watch<\/a><\/p>\n

Please Click here to Read the Testimony of : Suzanne Nossel, Executive Director, Amnesty International USA<\/a><\/p>\n

Please Click here to Read the Testimony of : Andrew Tabler, Next Generation Fellow, Washington Institute for Near East Policy<\/a><\/p>\n

Please Click here to Read the Testimony of : Radwan Ziadeh, Visiting Scholar, Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University<\/a><\/p>\n

Since March 2011, growing numbers of anti-government protests in Syria have been met with a brutal crackdown by the Syrian government, including widespread killings, torture, and indiscriminate shelling of cities. More than 8,000 people have been killed, and over 200,000 people have been displaced. The Syrian government is even using landmines as a deadly tactic to prevent civilians from escaping.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dchrs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499","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\/54"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dchrs.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dchrs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dchrs.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dchrs.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dchrs.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}