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Emran Feroz is an Afghan-Austrian journalist currently based in Stuttgart, Germany. He is regularly writing from Afghanistan, often focusing on the Middle East, Central Asia, drone warfare, refugee policies and human rights. Emran is writing in both German and English. His work has already appeared in international media outlets such as Al Jazeera, The Intercept, Alternet, The Atlantic or the New York Times and in various German and Austrian news papers and magazines.
A Day Of Silence
With his deep words, Syrian writer and intellectual Yassin al Haj Saleh remembers the victims of Saidnaya, one of the Assad regime's most notorious torture prisons.
A few days ago, Amnesty International revealed that about 13,000 people, mostly civilians, have been tortured and killed in Saidnaya in the last five years.
Saleh, a known dissident who has been imprisoned and tortured by the regime himself, demands to remember these victims with a day of silence. "Our words are unheard, so let our silence be heard," Saleh writes.
Since the world has been silent on the Syrian tragedy for years, his words appear to be more than true in these days.
