Aram Aqil is a Kurdish human rights defender from Rojava, Syria, who dedicated his life to exposing violent extremism after surviving 280 days as an ISIS hostage in 2014. Following his release, he fled to Germany, where he authored a bestselling memoir about his captivity and began coordinating numerous civil society initiatives focused on documenting human rights violations and preventing radicalization. Additionally a prominent minority rights activist and the leader of the German NGO Yekmal e.V.
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Side Event UN Human Rights Council (63rd Session)