Mohammad Al Abdallah

Mohammad Al Abdallah is a Syrian human rights and pro-democracy researcher and activist. He is currently Executive Director of the Syria Justice & Accountability Center (SJAC). SJAC is a center that aims to collect, collate, receive, process, analyze, and securely store information and evidence, documentation and other materials relating to violations of humanitarian law and human rights in Syria.

Al Abdallah has been involved in the Syrian revolution from the early weeks and became one of the revolution's famous media faces outside of Syria. In March 2012, he testified at the United Nations Human Rights Council in Geneva about the human rights situation in Syria. He is a former political prisoner who was imprisoned in Syria on two different occasions (facing military trial in both cases) for his work defending human rights and lobbying for political reform. He moved to the United States in February 2009 after he was granted political asylum.

Al Abdallah received a Bachelors of Law from the Faculty of Law at the Lebanese University in 2007. He is also a freelance journalist and contributes to several Arabic newspapers. He worked as a research assistant for Human Rights Watch in Beirut from July 2007 to January 2009, where he covered Syria.