15/12/2024
" The talking dead "
Funeral of Mazen Al-Hamada,
who exposed Assad's prisons and died in them
Hamada's body was found a few days ago with dozens of bodies belonging to prisoners from Sednaya prison in Damascus ,😥😥...
Hundreds of Syrians buried the body of Syrian opposition activist Mazen Al-Hamada today, Thursday, whose body was found a few days ago with dozens of bodies belonging to prisoners from the notorious Sednaya prison, who were executed by the regime before the fall of ousted President Bashar Al-Assad.
The funeral procession set off from Al-Mujtahid Hospital near the Al-Midan neighborhood of Damascus at the intersection with Khaled bin Al-Walid Street. These areas have witnessed demonstrations against Assad's rule since the start of the protests in 2011.
The mourners chanted slogans of the revolution, which could be heard in the main streets and squares of Damascus, in plain sight of everyone. With hoarse voices and crying, mourners carry pictures of Syrian martyrs and disappeared to commemorate them, chanting "The blood of the martyr... we will not forget you" and "Mother of the martyr, we are all your children."
The regime arrested Mazen al-Hamada several times at the beginning of the revolution in 2011 before releasing him after years of detention and torture to head to Europe and obtain asylum in the Netherlands. He returned to Syria again four years ago, but the regime renewed his detention before his body was found last Monday.
Al-Hamada, who hails from Deir ez-Zor Governorate in eastern Syria, worked for a foreign oil company before his arrest in 2011. He became famous after giving testimony before media cameras, as well as in documentaries and conferences about detainees and those forcibly disappeared in Assad's prisons, in which he explained the brutal conditions of detention, torture, and human slaughterhouses in Assad's prisons. He also participated in international procedures to prosecute the Assad regime. ....
Farhail's arrest and then a sudden return
The regime arrested Mazen al-Hamada at the beginning of the revolution in 2011 several times before releasing him after years of detention and torture to head to Europe and obtain asylum in the Netherlands. He returned to Syria again 4 years ago, and the regime renewed his detention before his body was found last Monday..
Al-Hamada, who hails from Deir Ezzor Governorate in eastern Syria, worked for a foreign oil company before his arrest in 2011. He became famous after giving his testimony in front of media cameras, as well as in documentaries and conferences about detainees and forcibly disappeared persons in Assad's prisons, in which he explained the brutal conditions of detention, torture, and human slaughterhouses in Assad's prisons. He also contributed to international procedures to prosecute the Assad regime. ...
Al-Hamada spent nearly 3 years in Assad's prisons, and after his release in 2014, he gave his detailed testimony around the world about the torture he was subjected to in Syria before suddenly boarding a plane in 2020 returning to Damascus, where he disappeared immediately upon arriving at the airport.
After his famous testimony, activists gave him the nickname "the talking dead" and repeated it because he escaped the death that threatens any detainee in Assad's prisons, as well as for his frozen and sad facial expressions and the psychological effects of torture in the regime's prisons. Commenting on the discovery of Mazen Hamada's body, journalist Ward Najjar said, "They killed Mazen Hamada several times... his heart, mind and feelings died, each one separately... and now after the fall of the tyrant and his executioners, a picture of Mazen's body has spread and we have realized that he died physically, but his memory has not and will not die in us, and we will even immortalize it for future generations."
