Sketch from eyewitness cellphone video.“Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was a husband and father, living and working in Houston for 35 years. Yesterday, an # ICE agent shot and killed him.I join the family in demanding a full investigation and have urged ICE to release all body-camera and dash-camera footage, as well as any communications from agents before and after the shooting.My prayers are with the family and the entire Houston community grieving this tragic loss. His family and Texans deserve answers, accountability, and justice. We can’t wait three more years for the murders to end and the terrorization to stop.”
Sketch.Today would have been my friend Mazen al-Hamada’s 49th birthday.He was murdered in an Assad regime prison in December of 2024, just days before Syria’s liberation.Mazen was known for many things: his courage, passion, pain, and humanity.He was also extremely funny, silly, playful, and generous.Even when Mazen was a refugee in the Netherlands, struggling with almost no money, he insisted on treating his guests to tea and cakes.His family and friends remember him as the most thoughtful, warm, gift giver.Today, to honor this beautiful human, we ask that you:
Sketch.561 days ago my friend Mazen al-Hamada’s tortured body was found in Assad’s ghoulish prison archipelago.Every moment of everyday since Mazen disappeared in Syria (2020) his friend, our friend, Mouaz Moustafa director of the extraordinary Syrian Emergency Task Force, has been fighting to bring Mazen and thousands of other disappeared Syrians the justice they deserve. The SETF is a small, but mighty band of heroes that is bringing light and hope to Free Syrians around the world.