Sunday, September 4, 2011

.:Middle East Online::A Lifetime of Resistance in Syria:.

.:Middle East Online::A Lifetime of Resistance in Syria:.

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A Lifetime of Resistance in Syria


Haitham al-Maleh, an 81-year-old Syrian human rights lawyer, plans to return to Syria in a few weeks to continue his life’s work. “We will be the winner,” he told Sharif Abdel Kouddous with a smile. “This regime is going to hell.”


Middle East Online

Time for the regime to go to hell

Haitham al-Maleh, an 81-year-old Syrian human rights lawyer, has spent most of his life struggling against autocracy in Syria and the last forty years battling the iron-fisted rule of Bashar al-Assad and his father before him, Hafez al-Assad.

“I will live to see the Assad regime fall, just as sure as we are sitting here together,” Maleh said in an interview on a recent visit to Cairo. Tall, with a thick, white goatee, large aquiline nose and an easy confidence, Maleh speaks in a lively manner that belies his years.

His life story is one of relentless resistance to government repression in Syria.

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