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Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR)
Template:Lang-ar
The logo of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
FoundedMay 2006 (2006-05)
FounderOsama Suleiman (Rami Abdulrahman)
TypeNGO
Legal statusNon profit
FocusHuman rights activism
Location
Official language Arabic, English
OwnerOsama Suleiman (Rami Abdulrahman)
Websitewww.syriahr.com/en/

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (also known as SOHR; Template:Lang-ar), founded in May 2006, is a UK-based information office that has been documenting human rights abuses in Syria which has focused since 2011 on the Syrian Civil War. It is frequently quoted by major news media, such as Voice of America, Reuters, BBC, CNN and National Public Radio, since the beginning of the uprising about daily numbers of deaths from all sides in the conflict and civilians killed in airstrikes in Syria.

The news office is run from his home in Coventry by Rami Abdulrahman (sometimes referred to as Rami Abdul Rahman), a Syrian Sunni Muslim who owns a clothes shop. Born Osama Suleiman, he adopted a pseudonym during his years of activism in Syria, and has used it publicly ever since. After being imprisoned three times in Syria, Abdulrahman fled to the United Kingdom fearing a fourth jail term and has not returned since.

In a December 2011 interview with Reuters, Abdulrahman said the observatory has a network of more than 200 people and that six of his sources had been killed. In 2012 Süddeutsche Zeitung described the organization as a one-man-operation with a single permanent worker, Rami Abdulrahman. In April 2013, The New York Times described him being on the phone all day every day with contacts in Syria, and relying on four men inside Syria who collate information from more than 230 activists, while checking all information himself.

SOHR has been accused of reporting militant anti-government fighters in dead civilians tolls, and has been described as being "pro-opposition".

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is of the opinion that SOHR is a one man operation that acts as a front for spreading anti-governmental messages into western media.

See also

References

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  2. "Syrian Observatory for Human Rights". Syriahr.com. Retrieved 12 September 2012.
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  8. "Syrian civil war: Jabhat al-Nusra's massacre of Druze villagers shows they're just as nasty as Isis". Independent. 13 June 2015.
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