Testifying at a United Nations Security Council Teleconference, Bard College Berlin Graduate Wafa Mustafa ’20 Called for Accountability and Justice for the 130,000 People Detained and Forcibly Disappeared in Syria
Wafa Mustafa holds a framed photograph of her father.
“As families of detainees, we are deeply frustrated by the collective inaction and abdication of responsibility by the Security Council to address this crime against humanity,” said Mustafa, a Syrian journalist, activist and member of Families for Freedom, which campaigns for the release of Syrian detainees. “To have a loved one who’s detained or disappeared, and not to know their fate, is like waking up one day and realizing that you have lost a limb.” Mustafa’s father, a human rights defender, is among the disappeared.
Post Date: 07-28-2020
Post Date: 07-28-2020