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Mansour al-Omari came out of prison with lists of the names of his fellow prisoners copied on scraps of tissue, written with a mixture of blood and rust. He explains that he had this constantly in mind during his detention, "It is my job, my task, to document the names", he claims he simply thought
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From 2011, he collected the list of political activists, for the VDC, who disappeared but Syrian government denies any involvement in their disappearance,arrest or detention. The center tries to document and list, but also to find information and answers for families, because, according to
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Mansour al-Omari received the PEC Award in June 2012, The PEC Award is given annually by the PEC committee to reward a person or an organization who worked for the protection of journalists and the freedom of the press, at that time al-Omari was still
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