16 Oct 2025
"The severity of loss that Syrians have experienced is one that cannot be reduced to statistics." A new #MPF_Blog by our intern Abiya Hasan.
Justice After Liberation: The Dilemmas of International Law and Transitional Justice in Post-Assad Syria
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1 Jul 2025
"Archives have consistently proven to be crucial in justice & accountability processes, as shown by the 1919 Extraordinary Military Tribunal in Istanbul... [and] [t]he Nuremberg Trials too." A new #MPF_Blog by
@ugur_umit_ungor #Syria #Prisons #Archives
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21 Jan 2025
New #MPF_Blog "How should such spaces and their traces be preserved and utilized without cancelling one group or dismissing certain efforts? not be reduced to a purely legal or security-focused project controlled by specific authorities." #justice #Syria
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27 Mar 2023
A new #MPF_Blog by @Sumaya_dw about her work with #MPF. As part of its research-activist work, MPF seeks to ask why translation is necessary for communicating prisons language, however, without missing the vernacular meaning of detainees' experiences.
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1 Feb 2023
A new #MPF_Blog by @AKutmah on the differences between the Arabic terms "Aseer" and "Sajin" (Captive and political Detainee/Prisoner) when discussing #colonialism and #authoritarianism in the MENA region:
#Palestine #Syria
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Artwork: Ibrahim El-Salahi
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28 Apr 2022
18 years ago today on April 28, 2004—the first #Abu_Ghraib photos were made public, exposing to the world the atrocities perpetrated, purportedly, to wage a War on Terror.
#Iraq #UnitedStates #Torture
#MPF_Blog on the #Prison_art of @Ayad_Alkadhi
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15 Jan 2022
turn the #Koblenz trial into an ongoing legacy of justice and accountability for crimes committed in Syria, instead of considering the January 13 verdict as an end to this process..#Alkhatib #branch251 #MPF_Blog
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13 Nov 2021
16 Jahre saß @YassinHSaleh in #Syrien im Gefängnis, ohne Prozess.
Die Lebensgeschichte des syrischen Schriftstellers Yassin al-Haj Saleh erzählt viel über die andauernde Tragödie in seiner Heimat. Porträt von @patrickbauer
sz-magazin.de/literatur/schr… via @SZMagazin #MPF_Blog
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3 Nov 2021
Thursday, 11. November 2021 7:00 pm
Book presentation and discussion:
Alaa Abd El-Fattah "You have not yet been defeated".
Language: Arabic & English.
Please register:
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#HumanRights
#Egypt
@ganobi
@jilliancyork
@SaraNanni
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31 Oct 2021
“You Have Not Yet Been Defeated” is a collection of Alaa’s (Alaa Abd El Fattah @alaa) essays, articles, and social media posts since the 2011 uprisings in #Egypt, including materials he wrote while detained. #MPF_Blog
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31 Oct 2021
#MPF_Blog @alaa:The politics of prisons Writing
Criticizing the West and its imperialist interests in the Middle East does not mean to forget about the critical forces that financially and politically support the moral causes of Middle Eastern activists.
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31 Oct 2021
#MPF_Blog @alaa:The politics of prisons Writing
Criticizing the West and its imperialist interests in the Middle East does not mean to forget about the critical forces that financially and politically support the moral causes of Middle Eastern activists.
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21 Oct 2021
As part of its research and advocacy pillars, the MENA Prison Forum will soon launch a new archival section to challenge the scarcity of and inaccessibility to prisons-related documentation. #MPF_Blog #Archives #MPF_Collections
Image via @MarwanTahtah
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4 Oct 2021
If guns, knives, and spywares can cross borders to silence dissident and alternative voices, Al-Siddiq’s message will indeed continue like the legacies of the heroes who preceded her.
#MPF_Blog @alaa_q #UAE #Iraq #JamalKhashoggi #LokmanSlim
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27 Sep 2021
#MPF_Blog Five snapshots from the ethnographic research of our project coordinator Mina Ibrahim...Mixed with an examination of existing prison literature and films in addition to a personal experience.
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17 Sep 2021
Lebanese Prisons menaprisonforum.org/blog_det…
Sites of detention in a malicious, predatory state like Syria or Lebanon are less concerned about the rehabilitation, the disciplining, and the re-integration of the prisoners into the ‘outside’ world.
#Lebanon #Syria #MPF_Blog
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3 Sep 2021
The past practices of concealing what occurs in #Iranian #prisons lead us to believe that those responsible for the treatment shown in the recently leaked footage will take the same path of silencing truth.
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Artwork:Courtesy of Nasrin Parvaz
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27 Aug 2021
The #Algerian-#Moroccan Tension menaprisonforum.org/blog_det…
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We need to take prisons as necessary sites while investigating not only modern meanings of sovereignty and ‘legal’ use of power but also colonial systems set in place for domination of certain lands and peoples.
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21 Aug 2021
A #Sudanese Lesson to the ICC
The trial must also connect the proceeding that will occur in the Hague, where the ICC is based, to #Sudan, where the effects of al-Bashir’s crimes haunt the Sudanese people souls and bodies today.
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