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The plan for holding the Assad regime accountable for atrocities needs a ‘factory reset’
In this article for Middle East Eye, prominent lawyers and Syrian human rights advocates tell Sondos Asem they are cautiously optimistic about transitional justice...
The path to justice for Assad’s victims: Interview with Toby Cadman
In this video, Toby Cadman, international law expert and co-founder of The Guernica 37 Group, speaks to Middle East Eye's Sondos Asem about the...
An interview with Agnes Callamard after major Amnesty International report on Gaza genocide
In this interview with Sondos Asem, the secretary general of Amnesty International, Agnes Callamard, urged British politicians to revise their denial that genocide is being committed in...
Middle East Eye articles
HRW denounces death penalty against Sondos Asem and 35 Egyptian politicians
Human Rights Watch has denounced the trial and sentencing of Sondos Asem and 35 other Egyptian politicians and public figures for conspiring with foreign...
Middle East Eye articles
Oxford University Student Union passes motion condemning sentencing of Sondos Asem
On May 27, the Oxford University Student Union passed an emergency motion to condemn the death sentence against Sondos Asem. Full text of the motion available...
Middle East Eye articles
Sondos Asem case cited in Washington Post editorial
The Washington Post published an editorial on 2 June 2015 denouncing Egypt's human rights crisis, featuring the case of recently released political prisoner Mohamed...
Middle East Eye articles
Somerville College Students condemn death sentence against Sondos Asem
Both the MCR and JCR at Somerville College passed motions condemning the death sentence.
On May 25, 2015, Somerville College JCR passed a motion condemning the death...
Middle East Eye articles
“Undaunted by my death sentence”, article by Sondos Asem in the Washington Post
I received with total disbelief the news that on May 16 an Egyptian court had sentenced me to death — along with former president Mohamed...
Middle East Eye articles
Oxford students condemn sentencing of Sondos Asem
Statement of solidarity from students at the Blavatnik School of Government, see more in this link:
http://blogs.bsg.ox.ac.uk/2015/05/22/oxford-students-condemn-sentencing-of-sondos-asem/
We are 78 students from 51 countries and territories...