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Ibrahim Abdo A’ssi was born in the year 1935, in the town of Jessr el-Shoughoor, in the Idlib province in northern Syria.
He was brought up in a modest family life; however, Ibrahim overcame his family circumstances and excelled in his education.
After his graduation from the ‘Teachers college’, he joined Faculty of Letters (Department of Arabic) in Damascus University during his service as a primary school teacher in the countryside, and during the obligatory military service. He had been acquired BA of letters in 1960.
Mr. A’ssi’s work at the Department of Education can only be considered as a part of his reformist message. He challenged aspects of backwardness in society as well as despotic authorities. People’s response was very positive, especially that his call corresponded with his conduct. Therefore, he was a subject of harassment from the ruling Ba’ath party. He was denied his electoral right as a member of the Teachers Union, and punished by moving him away from his birth and residence town to Sweida’ province in the south in 1964-1965.
Mr. A’ssi was consistent in giving cultural and awareness lectures on a weekly basis and at social, national and religious events in his town and the nearby countryside.
Central security and intelligence authorities arrested Ibrahim A’ssi on the evening of 28th April 1979. To pressurise him, they chased his eldest son –Ammar-, who was an engineer student at Aleppo University, so he went into hiding until he was killed while asleep in a nearby village in March 1982.
Ibrahim met some relatives while detained in Damascus intelligence branches in 1979, since then all news about him were suspended. A senior intelligence officer confirmed that Mr. A’ssi was not at Tadmur prison at the time of the infamous Massacre perpetrated and executed by Rifa’at Assad’s Defence Brigades on 27th June 1980.
No body has ever learned that Mr. A’ssi was brought to court or had any sentence passed on him.
Ibrahim is married and has four children, a disabled brother who needed his help very badly. His 80 year-old ailing father died repeating his son’s name (Ibrahim…)
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