activist
Aaref Dalila
عارف دليلة
Biography
Aaref Dalila is a Syrian economist and dissident who served as dean of the Faculty of Economics at Damascus University. A founding member of the Damascus Spring intellectual movement, he was arrested in 2001 and sentenced to ten years in prison for calling for democratic reforms. His incarceration became a symbol of the regime's suppression of peaceful intellectual opposition.
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Key Facts
Born:1945
Place:Masyaf, Hama, Syria
Nationality:Syrian