# Secret Prisons in Syria: A Conversation with Omar Alshogre #### calendar\_today Date and Time **April 12, 2022** 12:30PM - 01:30PM EDT #### pin\_drop Location **Wasserstein Hall (WCC), Rm B015, Harvard Law School Campus, Cambridge, MA** **Advocates, MELSA, CMES and the WLA International Committee** present **Omar Alshogre** Human Rights advocate *Moderated by Professor Ioannis Kalpouzos* **RSVP in advance:** Omar Alshogre is a Syrian public speaker and human rights advocate who fled Syria after being arrested and held in its most notorious prisons for 3 years. He was smuggled out at age 20. From his new home in Washington D.C., Omar is currently engaged in raising awareness about the situation in Syria, meeting with the White House, Holocaust Museum, multiple members of Congress, HRW, *New York Times*, the *Washington Post*, amongst others. He is also a key witness to multiple national prosecution efforts to hold the Assad regime accountable for War Crimes, and will be playing an important role alongside Caesar as a key witness for future US national prosecution efforts of the Assad regime where American citizens have been executed or detained. The conversation will be moderated by Dr. Ioannis Kalpouzos, a Visiting Professor at HLS and the co-founder of the Global Legal Action Network (GLAN). He specializes in public international law, international criminal law, human rights law, and the law of war. **Co-sponsors:** Advocates, MELSA, CMES and the WLA International Committee **Contact:** [Reem Hussein](mailto:rhussein@jd23.law.harvard.edu) See also:- [ Ad Hoc or Co-Sponsored ](/eventseries/ad-hoc-or-co-sponsored) - [ Government ](/research-field/government) - [ History ](/research-field/history) - [ Levant ](/research-region/levant) - [ 2021-22 ](/academic-year/2021-22) Share on:- [ Facebook ](#) - [ Twitter ](#) - [ Linkedin ](#) Save: [ Add to calendar calendar\_today ](https://cmes.fas.harvard.edu/node/1433477/event-feed.ics) Copy link link