Global Justice Syria News – New York Exclusive
The Syrian-American Consultative Meeting, which is a broad gathering of the components of the Syrian people and the highest political, diplomatic and administrative expertise of the Syrians in America, held in New York on Wednesday evening, a meeting to honor lawyer Anwar Al-Bunni, who was recently honored by Time magazine as one of the 100 most influential figures in the world.
The ceremony was hosted by businessman Asaad Jabara and organized by Dr. Hisham Nashawati, President of the Syrian Freedom Trail Organization, and was attended by many political and academic personalities, such as Dr.
Haytham Albizem, President of Global Justice Organization, and Mrs. Maissa Kabbani, Vice President of the Organization.
The consultative meeting had organized the meetings of Al-Bunni in Washington at: the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the relevant departments – the National Security Council – the Washington Institute on Friday – the Middle East Institute on Monday. In addition to several meetings in Chicago organized by the Consultative Meeting Branch there.
The American Time magazine publishes a compiled list every year that includes 100 of the most influential and influential people in the world. Personalities from different fields or (a group of individuals) are grouped into several categories; From leaders and artists to thinkers, heroes and pioneers…etc.
The magazine placed the two Syrian human rights activists and human rights activists who oppose the Syrian regime, Anwar al-Bunni and Mazen Darwish, among the pioneers in the list of the 100 most influential people in the world, and introduced them to Kenneth Roth, Executive Director of Human Rights Watch.
Time Magazine, an American international weekly periodical, is one of the most famous newspapers in its paper and electronic versions, which reviews new books on the market and provides interviews with writers and celebrities.
Time Magazine covers Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Latin America.
There is an Asian and Canadian version of it, which stopped in 2009, and the first issue was published on March 3, 1923.
Who is Anwar Al-Bunni?
Al-Bunni is a Syrian lawyer who began defending human rights issues in Syria in the mid-1980s on behalf of activists and individuals regardless of their political affiliation.
He and his family members spent 73 years in the prisons of the Syrian regime on various political and human rights charges. He was arrested in May 2006 by security forces after signing the Beirut-Damascus Declaration, which was calling for democratic reform.
He was later sentenced to five years in prison on charges of spreading false or exaggerated news that would weaken the national spirit, belonging to an unlicensed association of political societies of an international nature, then questioning state institutions and having contacts with a foreign country.
