Activities: Lawyer and President of the Syrian Organisation for Human Rights “Sawasiyah” and a Commissioner of the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ). He is the Laureate of the Martin Ennals Award for 2010. He has been subjected to a travel ban over the last six years. His office and all communications have been under constant surveillance by Syrian security forces for the past six years.

Activities: A 80 years old lawyer and former president of the Human Rights Association in Syria (HRAS). Al-Maleh was also Al-Hassani's lawyer when he was arrested. In 2006, Al-Maleh was awarded the Guezen medal by the Netherlands for his devotion on promoting human rights and democracy in Syria. Al-Maleh had already been imprisoned from 1980 to 1987 for his activities in the Syrian Bar Association where he served as the President of the Lawyers Social Welfare Association and had been banned from travelling abroad since 2004.

Activities: Lawyer, founder of HRAS, Head of the Damascus Centre for Legal Studies and President of the Committees for the Defence of Political Prisoners. At the time of his arrest, Anwar Al-Bunni was to be appointed Head of a European Union-funded centre for human rights training.

Activities: Medical doctor, he was a board member of the Committees for the Defense of Freedom, Democracy and Human Rights in Syria (CDF), and considered as one of the most prominent members of the Syrian opposition movement. He had already been imprisoned between 2001 and 2004, notably for “inciting an armed revolt” (Art. 298?).

Activities: Ali Al-Abdallah is a member of the Committee for the Revitalisation of Civil Society in Syria, a writer and a pro-democracy activist. He is a member of the National Council of the Damascus Declaration for Democratic National Change (NCDD) established on December 1, 2007 as a follow-up body to the Damascus Declaration for Democratic National Change of October 16, 2005; a collective pro-democracy movement calling for peaceful democratic reforms in Syria.

Activities: Nizar Ristnawi is a founding member of the Arab Organisation for Human Rights in Syria (AOHRS) and a member of the Committees for the Defence of Democratic Freedoms and Human Rights (CDF).

Activities: Writer and political analyst, he founded the Tartus branch of the National Dialogue Forum, an unauthorized discussion group.

Activities: Mustafa Ismail is a lawyer and activist of the rights of the Kurdish minority.