A statement by the Violation Documentation Center (VDC)

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*A statement by the Violation Documentation Center (VDC) and the Local
Development and Small Projects Support Office (LDSPS) regarding the
kidnapping of activists Razan Zeitouneh, Samira Khalil, Wael Hamada and
Nazim Hamadi*

*10/12/2013*

An unknown armed group kidnapped last night 9/10/2013, human rights
lawyer and activist Razan Zeitouneh, activist and ex-political prisoner
Samira Khalil, activist and Razan’s spouse Wael Hamada, and the lawyer and
poet Nazim Hamadi from the office of the VDC and LDSPS in Douma, Damascus
suburbs

Besides being an icon of the Syrian revolution, Razan cofounded the
Local Coordination Committees in Syria (LCC) and the Violation
Documentation Center (VDC), which documents all human rights violations in
Syria. She co-founded the local development and small projects support
office (LDSPS) as well which aims to help the people in Syria generally,
and in Eastern Ghouta more specifically, to provide basic needs and
essential services and support to medical and development centers. Her and
her colleagues work is very well recognized by the inhabitants in Ghouta




Her kidnapping and the kidnapping of her colleagues indicates yet
again the endeavor of some to undermine any form of civil action to help
Syrians in the liberated areas to rule and provide for themselves.

We, at the VDC and LDSPS, condemn with the strongest words this
kidnapping and ask for the immediate release of Razan, Samira, Wael and
Nazim without any conditions

We also hold all armed groups operating in the area accountable for
the safety and safeguard of the Ghouta inhabitants and Razan and her
colleagues. We hold them accountable as well for the safe release of Razan
and her colleagues and their safe return to their homes. Such armed groups
should ensure that such kidnapping in never repeated again in the future in
the area they control.


The Dignity and Freedom revolution is undergoing one of its most
critical moments now and we hope that it will be able to avoid this trap
set from its enemies to undermine its credibility and stray its path


Violation Documentation Center in Syria
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