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The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (also known as SOHR; (アラビア語:المرصد السوري لحقوق الإنسان)) founded in May 2006 is an information office documenting human rights abuses in the Syrian Civil War. Rami Abdulrahman's UK-based SOHR has been cited by virtually every western news outlet since the beginning of the uprising.〔("Russia questions credibility of Syrian Observatory for Human Rights," ) RT (25 February 2012). Retrieved 6 May 2013.〕 Since the start of coalition airstrikes against ISIL/ISIS in September 2014, SOHR is frequently quoted by major news media, such as Voice of America, Reuters, BBC, CNN and National Public Radio, about daily numbers of ISIL/ISIS fighters and civilians killed in airstrikes in Syria. The United Kingdom-based SOHR is run out of a two-bedroom terraced home in Coventry by one person, Rami Abdulrahman, a Syrian Sunni Muslim who also runs a clothes shop. After being imprisoned three times in Syria, Abdulrahman fled to the United Kingdom fearing a fourth jail term.〔 ''The New York Times'' in April 2013 described him being on the phone all day every day with contacts in Syria, and checking all information himself.〔 Born Osama Suleiman, he adopted a pseudonym during his years of activism in Syria, and has used it publicly ever since. In a December 2011 interview with Reuters,〔 Abdulrahman said the observatory has a network of 200 people and that six of his sources had been killed. Abdulrahman reports on events in the Syrian uprising, including the deaths of civilians, rebels and army defectors (whom he calls "martyrs") and government soldiers.〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Syrian Observatory for Human Rights )〕 In a 2015 interview with ''Russia Today'', Abdulrahman stated that the last time he visited Syria was in the year 2000.〔(Man who runs SOHR admits to RT he last visited Syria 15 years ago ), ''Russia Today'', 6 Oct, 2015〕 == Rival claims to the name == The website Syriahr.org claimed that Rami Abdulrahman was in fact called Osama Ali Suleiman and he merely used the name Rami Abdulrahman, a pen-name that the website claimed to have been initially used by all "SOHR members". Syriahr.org claimed that Abdulrahman was able to wrest control of the SOHR website Syriahr.net in August 2011 by changing all the passwords and that he proceeded to make himself the chairman of the SOHR, upon which an organisation claiming to be the 'real' SOHR created the rival website Syriahr.org.〔 This new website Syriahr.org then proceeded to attack Abdulrahman, claiming he only had a "very modest level of education", thus not able to "communicate professionally in English", and condemning his "lack of professionalism" and even alleging that he was a member of the Kurdistan Workers' Party.〔 Abdulrahman, meanwhile, says the new site Syriahr.org is run by Mousab Azzawi, who used to translate for the SOHR〔 but was fired after falsely claiming to be an official spokesman for the organisation and calling for foreign intervention in Syria.〔 The SOHR which was run by Mousab Azzawi had stated that they consider reporting on the deaths of government soldiers to be "not in their interest".〔〔 Since the early conflict, it appears that Azzawi's Syriahr.org is inactive and has adopted the name Syrian Network for Human Rights with the website Syrianhr.org, whereas Abdulrahman's group continues to use the sites Syriahr.net (Arabic version) and Syriahr.com/en (English version). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Syrian Observatory for Human Rights」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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