In a time where freedom had been suppressed, they stood at every front line with their words, voices, and actions to prove that revolution will live! And now, we are telling the stories of brave Syrian women, who faced injustice bravely.

Razan Zaitouneh

A Syrian human rights lawyer and activist who dedicated her life defending human rights and political prisoners in Syria.
At the beginning of the revolution, she established the “Local Coordination Committees of Syria,” which helped her with gathering people to protest against the regime. Additionally, she established the “Violation Documentation Center in Syria,” in which she disclosed Al-Assad regime crimes. She was kidnapped in Douma in 2013 and her fate remains unknown till today.

Fadwa Souleimane

An Alawite actress, who stood against the sect separation the regime was trying to do in the society. Clearly stating that the revolution isn’t against a certain sect but injustice only. She bravely faced fear with courage and protested before she became a refugee in France. “I won’t leave my dreams in the hands of a blood shedder; I will stay to live them in the time of freedom,” Fadwa stated.

May Skaf

The “Syrian Revolution icon”, she was one of the first people to call for freedom in Damascus. While she experienced prison many times, she never gave up. “If we were meant to die, so let us do it standing defending the right,” May stated. And even in her forced exile, she kept asking for a free, democratic Syria. In 2018, she died from mysterious circumstances.

Waad Al-Kateab

Waad is a journalist who documented war, bombing, and the suffering of civilians in Aleppo in 2019 in her film “For Sama”. The film won the BAFTA Film Awards for Best Documentary. Through her film, she showed the world the struggle of living under the strikes and blockade.
“We were brave enough to dream and we won’t regret this dignity”.

Bassma Kodmani

A journalist and political activist, she was one of the first people who stood against the regime and got arrested for her documentation of human rights violations. Her acts weren’t just in political sectors, she was an academic in literature, where she used her academic knowledge to highlight Syrian cases.
She explained in her own voice in international conferences the struggles of the Syrian people. Also, she collaborated with Human Rights Watch to report the details of the prisoner cases and disclose the regime’s violations.
For all of them and for women in prisons who have died, were raped and forced to give birth under torture, for everyone who fought and will always fight for a democratic, pluralist Syria, the role of Syrian women today in political decisions is a right and necessity that shouldn’t be negotiated.

“To say yes, I should have the right to say NO”.