{"id":676,"date":"2012-06-24T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-06-24T00:00:00","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=676","title":{"rendered":"The Story of a Fallen Hero and a non-violent peaceful movement activist: Alaa Abdul Aziz Khareeta"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Story of Alaa Abdul Aziz Khareeta, peaceful dynamism  activist in Az-Zabadani city in Rural Damascus and its Revolution Coordination  Committee member.<\/p>\n<p>Alaa Abdul Aziz Khareeta, a 26 years old young man,  Revolution Coordination Committee member in Az-Zabani, was arrested at one of  the regime\u2019s war checkpoints in Rural Damascus on Thursday 14\/06\/2012. It is  worth mentioning that those checkpoints divided the country, cities and  streets. As no one knows whether he is on the wanted list, any Syrian citizen  might be arrested at the first or the second checkpoint.<\/p>\n<p>This young man, Alaa, was transported to a patrol affiliated  to the Syrian regime security forces commanded by Colonel Hassan Zeinou. Alaa  was subjected immediately to barbaric torture ways conducted and supervised by  people who do not belong to Humanity and have no meaning of mercy of pity.<\/p>\n<p>They inflict on Syrian citizens mechanisms of torture that  are only used by regimes that still live in darkness; such regimes can be  counted by fingers, including the Syrian regime.<\/p>\n<p>No international investigation committee was able to gain  access to these detention facilities to verify the reality of the situation of  the illegally detained citizens and inspect the mechanisms used for torture by  the Syrian regime.<\/p>\n<p>Alaa was tortured to death in less than 20 hours. The  regime\u2019s forces returned his body to Az-Zabadani bearing horrible marks of  torture to be a lesson for the activists and residents.<\/p>\n<p>Residents sent a clear and obvious response in the following  day, Friday 15-06-2012. First, thousands of residents performed funeral prayer  over his pure soul. Then they took from the mosque to the Freedom Square in a  protest chanting slogans for freedom, in support of Alaa, for victory and that  Bashar and his entourage shall be executed. Consequently, the regime\u2019s army  troops attacked protesters, opened gunfire injuring a large number of whom and  shelled with mortars the quarter where Alaa used to live injuring his cousins,  one of them has clinical death.<\/p>\n<p>Alaa is a married man \u2026 She is a window now<br \/>\n  Alaa has a child \u2026. He is an orphan now<\/p>\n<p>Alaa was one of the first citizens to protest and chant for  freedom and dignity. He took part in all the protests of his city and was one  of the founders of its Revolution Coordination Committee. All residents of  Az-Zabadani speak highly of his hard work, perseverance, patience and moral  excellence.<\/p>\n<p>Videos and pictures that document Alaa\u2019s body bearing  barbaric torture marks<br \/>\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=NoeCfUHVowE&amp;list=UU6jFbpl1KYnufacgC9WoFAw&amp;index=2&amp;feature=plcp\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=NoeCfUHVowE&amp;list=UU6jFbpl1KYnufacgC9WoFAw&amp;index=2&amp;feature=plcp<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NoeCfUHVowE\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Mass crowds of mourners who held his funeral procession of  Alaa<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=f4gv98kof1M&amp;list=UU6jFbpl1KYnufacgC9WoFAw&amp;index=3&amp;feature=plcp\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=f4gv98kof1M&amp;list=UU6jFbpl1KYnufacgC9WoFAw&amp;index=3&amp;feature=plcp<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/f4gv98kof1M\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Alaa\u2019s Photo<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo.php?fbid=331899833552020&amp;set=a.119647028110636.22797.119242211484451&amp;type=3\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo.php?fbid=331899833552020&amp;set=a.119647028110636.22797.119242211484451&amp;type=3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Alaa\u2019s photo on his wedding day<br \/>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo.php?fbid=332144313527572&amp;set=a.119647028110636.22797.119242211484451&amp;type=3\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo.php?fbid=332144313527572&amp;set=a.119647028110636.22797.119242211484451&amp;type=3<\/a><br \/>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo.php?fbid=331585036916833&amp;set=a.119647028110636.22797.119242211484451&amp;type=3\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo.php?fbid=331585036916833&amp;set=a.119647028110636.22797.119242211484451&amp;type=3<\/a><\/p>\n<p><p><u>Syrian Network for Human Rights &#8211; London &amp; <br \/>\nDamascus Center for Human Rights Studies &#8211; Syria<\/u><\/p>\n<p>SNHR:<\/p>\n<p>Website: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.syrianhr.org\" target=\"_blank\">www.syrianhr.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Email: <a href=\"mailto:press@syrianhr.org\">press@syrianhr.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>DCHRS:<\/p>\n<p>Website: <a href=\"https:\/\/dchrs.org\/english\/news.php\">www.dchrs.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Email: <a href=\"mailto:info@dchrs.org\">info@dchrs.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Story of Alaa Abdul Aziz Khareeta, peaceful dynamism  activist in Az-Zabadani city in Rural Damascus and its Revolution Coordination  Committee member.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":56,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dchrs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676","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\/56"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dchrs.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dchrs.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dchrs.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dchrs.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dchrs.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}