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[Golden_Pigeon]

A prominent Syrian opposition activist and her journalist daughter have been found murdered in Turkey allegedly by members of Bashar Al-Assad's security forces.

Istanbul police department confirmed today that the bodies of 60-year-old Dr Orouba Barakat and her 22-year-old daughter Halla were found in their apartment in Istanbul's Uskudar neighbourhood, located in the Asian side of the city.

The police were called by friends of the victims who became concerned after failing to get in contact with the mother and daughter. Post-mortem examinations on the bodies indicated that the pair had been dead for three days. Their bodies showed signs of stab wounds and strangulation.

Friends and family believe they were assassinated by the Assad regime because of their human rights work in exposing atrocities committed by the Syrian president against his political opponents. Orouba is said to have been investigating alleged torture in prisons run by the Syrian government. She had initially lived in Britain, then the United Arab Emirates before settling in Istanbul.

The mother and daughter have been confirmed as family members of the victims of the Chapel Hill shooting in the US in 2015 when a known Islamophobe murdered Deah Barakat along with his wife, Yusor Mohammad Abu-Salha, and her sister, Razan Mohammad Abu-Salha.

In an emotional tribute to her aunt on Facebook, Deah's sister Suzanne Barakat wrote: ”How many more beloved family members will I lose to hatred and violence?" Suzanne also mentioned that Orouba and Halla, who had worked for Turkish news agency TRT World, were both recently threatened by the Syrian regime.

”At the age of 60, Orouba Barakat had signed very important interviews with opponents who were tortured in prisons in Syria. Orouba has publicised numerous documentaries and interviews about Assad regime's prison massacres in English and Arabic," she wrote.

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[Golden_Pigeon]

Hundred of people gathered at the funerals in Istanbul today:

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[Not]

Heartbreaking. Fuck the world. Fuck extremists and fuck the insane and violent and pointless fake masculinity which kills so many women day after day. This has to stop.

 

[Yoshimitsu126]

What the fuck. So much shit happening at home and I actually forgot about Syria.

RIP to both of them and condolences to their friends and family.

 

[RBH]

The mother and daughter have been confirmed as family members of the victims of the Chapel Hill shooting in the US in 2015 when a known Islamophobe murdered Deah Barakat along with his wife, Yusor Mohammad Abu-Salha, and her sister, Razan Mohammad Abu-Salha.

Just tragic

 

[Heckler456]

Rest in peace. Absolute animals. How someone can snuff out another's life like that... Especially a civilian's. Terrible.

 

[Javier23]

Read about it just the other day. Fucking horrifying.

 

[Kinitari]

To risk life and limb for good and be murdered for it, not just you but your daughter.... I hope people don't forget her, and hopefully even in death she can continue to fight for good

 

[cameron]

Bit from The Guardian: Syrian opposition activist and her journalist daughter murdered in Turkey

The two women were close friends of Kayla Mueller, the US aid worker who was kidnapped in Syria by Isis in August 2013 and killed 18 months later.

According to ABC news, the women were closely involved in efforts to negotiate Mueller’s release, and following her death were setting up a charity in her memory, to help Syrian women living in Turkish refugee camps.

Orouba Barakat was also the aunt of one of three Muslim college students who were shot dead by a neighbour in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, in 2015.

Deah Barakat, his wife Yusor Mohammad Abu-Salha and sister-in-law Razan Mohammad Abu-Salha were murdered in what their family described as a hate crime.

 

[SatelliteOfLove]

Jesus fuck, the tragedy that family and friends have suffered.

RIP

 

[TheRealTalker]

Assad learning from his big bros Russia and Iran

truly disgusting and saddening