We the undersigned express our deep condemnation of the unprofessional news, which does not meet the minimum ethics of Human Rights or honorable media activities that Mr. Osama Suleiman (Rami Abdul-Rahman) has been publishing about the Syrian Revolution for the following reasons:
First: when he equals the executioner and the victim: through propagating false claims about imaginary numbers of the security and army elements killed, and that are stated only by Mr. Osama Suleiman (Rami Abdul-Rahman) who does not rely on any documentation of the numbers he gives.
Second: provoking sectarian tensions: especially in the areas where different sects live together by pretending that the crimes of the security forces are just sectarian fighting, the thing that is not true. Such behaviour of Mr. Osama does participate in generating certain reactions that do not serve but the regime in this sensitive stage of the national uprising longing for freedom in Syria.
Third: questioning the credibility of all Syrian commissions, committees, and figures interested in documenting the crimes committed by the Syrian regime: that is through questioning and unjustifiably attacking all other commissions and committees and stigmatizing their credibility and reports in an attempt to show that he is the only trusted source of information about the Syrian Revolution, despite of the fact that he has never supported any of the reports he issued since the eruption of the Revolution with the number of victims with their names or places in which they were killed; whereas, all other commissions and committee do this.
Accordingly, we call for the necessity to stop all direct or indirect kinds of dealing with Mr. Osama Ali Suleiman (Rami Abdul-Rahman) as it may have a negative role in distorting the facts and the real situation in Syria, which might lead to elongating the sufferings of Syrians and deviating their struggle for freedom, and do badly for the efforts of thousands of pro-revolution activists, regardless of their ideological, racial or religious backgrounds, who have been working hardly as unknown volunteers in supportive for the great Syrian people and their human rights.
Damascus, January 4th, 2012.
Signatories (in alphabetical order in Arabic):
- Dr. Ibrahim Al-Mari (Director of the Barada TV channel).
- Abu Rami Al-Homsi (spokesman of the Syrian Revolution General Commission in the province of Homs).
- Anas Al-Khani (Chief of the British Solidarity for Syria).
- Anas Al-Abda (a member of the Secretariat of the Syrian National Council).
- Anas Damiriya (journalist and human rights activist).
- Anas Mohamed (Syrian human rights activist).
- Anwar Al-Omr (engineer and Syrian activist).
- Bassam Jaara (spokesman of the Syrian Revolution General Commission in Europe).
- Bashar Al-Hulwa (a Syrian lawyer in diaspora) .
- Bashar Al-Haffar (General Coordinator of the Committee of March 15th Martyrs).
- Bahia Mardini (President of the Arab Committee for Freedom of Opinion and Expression).
- Dr. Teglib Al-Rahbi (representative of the Revolutionaries of Freedom and Dignity in Britain).
- Husam Al-Din Mohamed (secretary of the editor of Al Quds Al Arabi) .
- Hakam Al-Baba (writer and Syrian journalist).
- Hakam Al-Wahib (artist).
- Khaled Shahbandar (Political Bureau of the Syrian Revolution General Commission).
- Khaled Abu Salah (spokesman of the Council of the Syrian Revolution in Homs).
- Khaled Al-Berzawi (spokesman of the Revolution Leadership Council in Damascus).
- Khelaf Ali Al-Khelaf (a Syrian writer and activist).
- Rim Atassi (Syrian human rights activist).
- Salim Al-Kabbani (Syrian human rights activist).
- Suhair Al-Atassi (lawyer and a leadership in the Syrian Revolution)
- Sowsan Al-Johmani (Syrian activist).
- Saleh Diab (Syrian poet).
- Adil Bishtawi (novelist and historian).
- Amer Al-Sadiq (spokesman of Syrian Revolution Coordinators Union).
- Abdurrahman Besma Ji (Syrian Human Rights activist).
- Dr. Abdurazzaq Eid (Syrian scholar and head of the National Council of Damascus Declaration in the Diaspora).
- Abdul Karim Rihawi (President of the Syrian Association for Human Rights).
- Abdul Wahab Omar (Head of the Syrian British Solidarity Campaign).
- Abdul Karim Afnan (Syrian journalist).
- Akaba Mushaweh (Syrian journalist and political activist).
- Ourouba Barakat (Syrian Assembly of Freedom and Dignity).
- Aladdin Qatramiz (Syrian businessman and human rights activist).
- Ammar Korbi (Head of Syrian Organization for Human Rights).
- Imad Derkzeli (coordinator of the free Syrians in Britain).
- Dr. Ammar Nasser (Syrian consultant physician and activist living in Britain).
- Omar Idlibi (the spokesman of Local Coordination Committees in Syria- LCC)
- Ali Hassan (spokesman of Syrian Revolution General Commission).
- Ghalia Qabbani (Syrian writer and novelist living in Britain and a member of the Syrian National Council).
- Ghassan Ibrahim (Chairman of the Arab Global Network in London).
- Fadi Haddad (chief coordinator of the Free Syrians in Britain).
- Dr. Fadel Al-Magribi (Secretary of the medical assistance in the coordination committee of the Syrian Revolution in Britain).
- Dr. Fadia Alladighani (human rights activist living in Paris).
- Kamal Al-Din Tebab (Syrian activist in the diaspora).
- Dr. Lina Jamul (human rights activist living in Britain).
- Majd Jad'aan (Syrian engineer and activist).
- Mohsen Al-Halak (a Syrian lawyer).
- Dr. Mohammed Alnajjar (Memebr of the Syrian National Council and Chairman of the Coordination Committee of the Syrian Revolution in Britain).
- Mohamed Al-Ali (Syrian activist).
- Mohamed Babi (Syrian activist).
- Mohammed Antabeli (Head of the independent Syrians Alliance in Britain).
- Dr. Mohamed Shadi Keskin (the founder of the martyrs of March 15th, and current Secretary General of the National Justice).
- Mahmoud Suleiman (journalist and activist).
- Dr. Mahmoud Al-Aqra (a surgeon and political activist living in Britain).
- Dr. Musab Azzawi (Medical Doctor and Human Rights Activist).
- Marwan Hammoud (spokesman and coordinator of foreign relations of the Syrian National Democratic Alliance - Todd).
- Marwan Mhasn (former political prisoner and human rights activist living in Britain).
- Dr. Mehdi Ayyash (General Coordinator of the Syrian British Solidarity Campaign).
- Milad Saqr (Syrian journalist).
- Dr. Nizar Tewba (Representative of the Free Syrians in Britain).
- Hammam Al-Ajil (Syrian political activist).
- Haitham Al-Maleh (founder of the Syrian Human Rights Association and a member of the Syrian National Council).
- Wajih Al-Baroudi (Syrian political activist).
- Wehid Saqr (Secretary General of the Syrian Unified Coalition).
- Wafa Taqi Al-Din (Syrian journalist and writer living in Britain).
- Dr. Wael Al-Aji (the official representative in Britain of the National Organization for Human Rights in Syria).
- Walid Koutli (director of theater and film).