Hundreds of Syrians gathered in central Damascus for a funeral procession to honor Mazen al-Hamada, a prominent anti-government activist whose body was discovered following the ouster of President Bashar Assad. The procession, which transformed into a call for justice, saw marchers carrying posters of other missing detainees and demanding that Assad be held accountable.
Al-Hamada, who had been a vocal participant in the anti-government protest movement, was arrested multiple times before leaving Syria for the Netherlands in 2013. Despite becoming a well-known figure in the anti-Assad movement abroad, he returned to Syria in 2020 and mysteriously disappeared. His family tragically found his body in a hospital morgue, indicating that he had been killed within the past week.
