The laureates

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Noura Ghazi has been a Syrian human rights lawyer and activist since 2000, defending political prisoners since 2004. She founded the NoPhotoZone organization in 2018 to pass on the memory of her husband Bassel Khartabil Safadi, a prominent Syrian-Palestinian activist who was detained by the Syrian regime in 2012 and executed in 2015. NoPhotoZone is a French NGO that provides legal and psychosocial support and advocacy for detainees, the disappeared and their families in Syria, Lebanon and Turkey. It has been advocating internationally for the rights of detainees and the missing in Syria since 2014. She has won numerous international awards, notably from Amnesty International, for the value of her struggle.