Hadeel Kouki

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Hadeel Kouki (right), 2012.

Hadeel Kouki ( Arabic هديل كوكي, DMG Hadīl Kūkī ; * approx. 1992) is a former human rights activist from Syria .

Life

Hadeel Kouki comes from a Syrian-Christian family. She started studying at Aleppo University . In early March 2011, the 19-year-old was captured and held and tortured for 40 days by the supporters of the Bashar al-Assad regime for distributing leaflets for democratization. The torture included electric shocks and rape, as well as solitary confinement . She did not have access to lawyers and was not allowed to have visitors. Over the next several months, she was arrested twice more for participating in demonstrations. She fled the country in December 2011 when agents came to arrest her for providing medical assistance to protesters. She hid first in the desert and was later with the help of the Free Syrian Army in Turkey to escape. From there she traveled to France and Sweden . She later went to Egypt to support the Syrian opposition. Her family has since emigrated to Europe.

On February 23, 2012, Syrian secret police broke into her apartment in Cairo , threatened her life and beat her.

Kouki has called on the UN Human Rights Council , the Geneva Summit for Human Rights and Democracy , the New America Foundation , the United States Institute of Peace, and other groups.

Kouki addressed the Assad regime during a speech in Lebanon by saying, “Under no circumstances can this regime be seen as the protector of minority rights or Christianity.” She attacked the administration of President Barack Obama because it was too has done little to protect minorities in the Middle East , especially   Christians , secular Syrians and Kurds . She also criticized Christian leaders for not speaking out in public: "None of the Christian figures or leaders asked about us when we were tortured and beaten in prison".

Since then she has lived in asylum in a western country.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Tom Gross: The true face of human rights at the UN . In: The National Post March 16, 2012.
  2. ↑ a b Hadeel Kouki: Why Won't Obama Help My Syrian Christian Family? . April 16, 2015.
  3. ↑ Ahed Al Hendi: Syrian Dissidents: "One Day in Prison is Like a Year" . January 31, 2012.
  4. ↑ a b Syrian Christians feel pull from both sides in civil war. In: The Washington Times . October 1, 2012.
  5. ^ Assad's Thugs Beat Syrian Christian Activist in Cairo . February 23, 2012.
  6. ↑ Ahed Al Hendi: Syrian Threat: "Your Beautiful Face Will be Burned by Acid" . February 23, 2012.
  7. ↑ Activist Speaks About Syrian Atrocities at the UN . March 15, 2012.
  8. ^ 4th Annual Geneva Summit . March 13, 2012.
  9. ↑ Bearing Witness to Syria's Tragedies . July 24, 2012.
  10. ↑ Ground truth: New Media, Technology and the Syria Crisis . October 2, 2012.
  11. ^ "This regime under no terms could be considered as a protector of minority rights or of Christians."
  12. ↑ "None of the Christian figures or leaders asked for us when we were being tortured or beaten in prisons."

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personal data
SURNAME Kouki, Hadeel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES هديل كوكي (Arabic)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Syrian human rights activist
DATE OF BIRTH around 1992