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SOHR have no credibility whatsoever!

Why you keep censoring this fact? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.149.61.219 (talk • contribs)

Funding

There is a gaping hole in this article: not a word about who is funding them.

Why are people so keen on keeping a lid on this? This was just removed:

The organisation says on its website that "The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights is not associated or linked to any political body."^[1] Peter Hitchens commented: Is Boris Johnson's Foreign Office not a political body? Because the FO just confirmed to me that "the UK funded a project worth £194,769.60 to provide the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights with communications equipment and cameras." That's quite a lot, isn't it? I love the precision of that 60p. Your taxes, impartially, at work.'"^[2]

The number was later confirmed by email to Medialens.^[3]

––Huldra (talk) 23:47, 5 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Try getting a better source than Peter Hitchen's blog. 1, 2, 3 I don't hold much stock in Medialens either. Stikkyy t/c 04:51, 6 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

< The quote refered to by Huldra also appears in an article [1] in the Mail on Sunday which should be fine to use as a reference.

A 'Funding' section could be useful, I agree, but it needs reliable sourcing , and equally, needs to be phrased in an encyclopedic manner- mot a lengthy polemical quote from a blog. If there are reliable sources that describe its funding, we can and should add them. Firkin Flying Fox (talk) 15:08, 6 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Totally agree with Firkin Flying Fox. There absolutely should be a section on funding, but it needs to be reliably sourced and concise. BobFromBrockley (talk) 16:57, 8 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Per WP:BALASPS, I've thrown it into the earlier section about the organisation. Stickee (talk) 22:08, 20 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

And a followup, I merged it with the Medialens sentence since they're saying the same thing, just twice. Stickee (talk) 23:33, 24 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

So what body is funding the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights ? TenBlueEagles (talk) 14:59, 31 March 2025 (UTC)[reply]

References

^ About Us
^ What moral standing do we have after this outrage? And are we about to join *another* idiotic war, like feeble minions?, Peter Hitchens, 13 May 2018
^ The Syrian Observatory - Funded By The Foreign Office, 4 June, 2018, Medialens

Osama who?

Daniele Ganser writes in his 2016 book that the real name would be Osama Ali Suleiman. He also characterized the SOHR as undurchsichtig (opaque, intransparent). Wakari07 (talk) 14:05, 25 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Regarding the professors

@Hakeem Abdullah Williams: Dostal, Barrett, and Mullerson are all based off of WP:PRIMARY sources, and it isn't a stretch for me to think that they're cherry-picked. There isn't a shortage of people who have expressed this opinions on the Syrian Civil War, and I could just as easily find pro-opposition professors to include in the article. This simple fact makes it contentious, and therefore secondary, published sources are preferred, none of which are present except for the NYT article. Also, Wikipedia is aimed at the general public, and therefore it is undue for the musings of some professors to take up half the article. Stikkyy t/c 05:53, 17 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

The text added looks like a smear, and is not neutral. The use of quoting single words shows emphasis on an opinion to undermine which is a not neutral way of expressing it. Why was the New York Times supported text moved down? New York Times isn't some ragtag news organization. There's no way that primary sources of questionable quality get precedence over New York Times, which is both reputable and a secondary source. To me, the inclusiveness of that text is less about being primary sources, than the opinions are in an open access repository. The repository itself may be credible, but what's the reliability of what goes in? Pinetree116 (talk) 07:33, 17 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Turkey handed 9 Iranian Kurdish migrants to Syrian free army

Hi dear 4 months ago the government of Turkey handed 9 Iranian Kurdish migrants to the so call free Syrian militants or jaish al hor and the families were not have any information about them and Iran and Turkey were not take a responsibility for their freedom please could you help us with this I can send the full details and photos and videos thank you 🙏🙏🙏 2A04:4A43:41CF:BAE6:9598:763B:A4D7:B860 (talk) 17:35, 18 December 2021 (UTC)[reply]

[1] About Us

[2] What moral standing do we have after this outrage? And are we about to join *another* idiotic war, like feeble minions?, Peter Hitchens, 13 May 2018

[3] The Syrian Observatory - Funded By The Foreign Office, 4 June, 2018, Medialens

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