Permanently moving our blog to Wordpress

As some of you may have noticed, we operate on a number of platforms these days. Wordpress.com, this blog account, Twitter to share news, commentary and articles, Facebook to put out news, share articles, etc.

However, spreading out our work to two blogs (on wordpress and blogger) minimises our ability to spread articles and attract an audience, as they will be divided between two sites, instead of being able to focus on the one site. As a result, we are moving our blog permanently to wordpress.com, where we have already been running a blog for some time. It is a better platform for blogging, sharing articles, gaining a following (and thus spreading the word about the cause of freedom, etc).

Thus, this will be our last post on this blog, as we shift our efforts permanently to wordpress.com. You can find our new blog here, where we will post from now on. Thanks go to all who have viewed this blog and shared posts from it so far. We will continue to keep it up for archival purposes.

We will also continue to post from our Twitter account (Radio_FreeSyria), Tumblr account, and Facebook page.

Regards,
The Radio Free Syria team.

Senior Regime Torturer, Cousin of Bashar Assad Captured: Report

Latakia province, 29-03-2014: Resistance forces in Latakia have reportedly captured a senior regime officer, Brigadier Atef Najib, the head of the regime’s political security division in Latakia and a cousin of Bashar Assad.

Najib was previously the head of the political security dvision in Daraa, where he supervised the torture of children and ordered some of the first massacres of civilians in the early days of the revolution in 2011. According to a number of sources, he took particular personal pleasure in listening to the screams of children being tortured.

View the report on Facebook here.

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Notable Syrian Activsts Surrender to the Regime in a "Deal"

This post was directly put out via Qusai Zakarya's managers at his Facebook page, blog, etc. The notable activist has turned himself in to the Assad regime, a selfless act in an attempt to save the lives of the starving people of Moadamiya. His life is now directly in danger, as he is utterly at the regime's mercy. Please share this post widely in an attempt to spread the word! If there is enough awareness, the Assad regime may think twice before harming him as they have harmed millions of other activists and innocents:

"QUSAI ACCEPTS DEAL TO LEAVE MOADAMIYA

Yesterday, Qusai Zakarya and several other opposition leaders and activists from Moadamiya accepted the regime’s offer of a face to face meeting as part of a deal for them to be allowed to leave the besieged area. Moadamiya’s fifteen month siege has not allowed people in or out and not allowed the entry of food.

The local council has been eager to finalize a truce so that larger food supplies would be allowed in – some supplies had entered after the local council first signed a truce with the regime on December 26.

Qusai and other opposition leaders had initially opposed the truce and continued to call for breaking the siege. The regime then demanded that certain activists in Moadamiya leave as a condition of the truce. Due to increasing pressure from residents who want the food shipments, Qusai, along with other activists, yesterday agreed to leave Moadamiya for a meeting with government officials. Their safety was guaranteed by the regime as part of the deal.

Qusai ‘s group was taken to a hotel in central Damascus. They are waiting for a meeting tonight – presumably with officials from the Ministry of Reconciliation and the Fourth Armored Division Headquarters.

A member of Qusai’s Facebook team has spoken with him and is hopeful that negotiations will be productive and permit him safe passage out of Syria."

Thank you for your help. May Gog bless and protect you Qusai, and may God protect Syria!

- The Radio Free Syria team.

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A great victory for the Syrian Revolution in Ghouta

Today, there was a glorious victory, al-Hamdulillah. The revolutionaries' elite units have come close to breaking the siege of Ghouta (in Damascus), saving the starving people there! Thousands were previously starving to death as a result of the crippling siege there (in addition, the chemical massacre in August was in Ghouta). 8000 elite fighters led the way, launching a counterattack from the east and west, according to the discourse circulating on Twitter. They laid waste to huge numbers of Assad's scum. TAKBIR!

The true soldiers of Syria can be seen here in this video, staging a victory parade.

The discourse and information about the successful campaign can be found here, on Twitter.

Ben Allinson-Davies is a worker for Radio Free Syria, blogger, and film-maker, who spent over a week in Syria with the people there, including rebel forces. His documentary on the revolution can be found here.