activist

Michel Kilo

ميشيل كيلو

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A Lifetime of Dissent: Michel Kilo's Fight for Syrian Democracy

From Latakia to Paris via multiple Assad prisons — Michel Kilo's life as a writer and opposition leader spanned 60 years of resistance to Syrian authoritarianism, ending in COVID exile in 2021.

Biography

Michel Kilo was a Syrian writer and human rights activist, who has been called "one of Syria's leading opposition thinkers."

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Key Facts

Born:1940

Place:Latakia, Syria

Died:2021-04-08

Nationality:Syrian