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Human Rights Defenders were kidnapped in Human Rights Day

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razanHuman Rights Activists were shocked about the news of kidnapping Lawyer and Human Rights Activist Razan Zaitouneh and three of her colleagues working in the same field, and they are : Human Rights Activist Samira Alkhalil, Mr. Wael Hamada; he is Razan’s husband , and Lawyer Nazem Al-Hamidi, where masked armed group kidnapped them from office of Violations Documentations Centre in the city of Doma, where our colleagues were working ( the armed group are unknown to the moment of issuing this statement ).
As known, kidnapping in general is prohibited in International Humanitarian Law and Customary International Human Rights Law; which is a binding law, so it is considered a war crime, their perpetrators must be pursued and hold accountable

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