Syria hails global hero executed as Assad fled
Crowds in Damascus have celebrated the legacy of Mazen al-Hamada, the face of the country’s uprising, whose tortured body was found this week.
Syrian activist Mazen al-Hamada is carried for burial in Damascus as thousands throng his coffin. AP
Few could bear to look long at his face, with its sunken, sorrowful eyes so full of pain – but when Mazen al-Hamada spoke, you could not help but listen.
He spoke to audiences across the West, in lecture theatres and parliaments, bearing witness to the darkness of the Assad regime in low, urgent tones.
The Telegraph London
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