Raed Fares and Hammoud al-Juneid were both killed on the 23rd of November 2018, targeted in a gun attack in the town of Kafranbel, in Idlib province, Syria. A report by the Syrian Network for Human Rights concluded that the jihadist group Hay’at Tahrir al Sham was responsible for their murder.
Raed Fares was the most widely known civil society activist of Syria’s revolution. He and fellow activist Hammoud Juneid had been at the centre of organising demonstrations and civil resistance against the Assad regime in their home town of Kafranbel ever since the early days of protests in 2011.
In this issue we are publishing a number of interviews conducted as part of an ongoing Syria Notes project on Raed and Hammoud’s legacy.
- Kafranbel’s fight against extremism
Interview with Mohammed Alhammadi. - In the Women’s Centre
Interview with a female activist in Kafranbel. - How Radio Fresh saved lives in Idlib
Interview with Mahmoud Yusuf Alswad. - Nusra’s 2016 attack on Radio Fresh
By Julia Taleb. - Kafranbel’s cartoon revolution
Interview with Ahmad Kalil al-Jalal. - Supporting civil resistance in Idlib
Interview with Ziad Khayyata. - The Syrian revolution in three minutes
