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  1. Jun 2, 2011 · Hamza al-Khateeb was a 13-year-old Syrian boy who loved to swim in the irrigation ditches of his family farm and watch his collection of homing pigeons circle the sky above. On April 29, he...

  2. Hamza Ali Al-Khateeb (Arabic: حمزة علي الخطيب; October 24, 1997 – May 25, 2011) was a 13-year-old Syrian boy who died while in the custody of the Syrian government in Daraa. On April 29, 2011, he was detained during a protest.

  3. His main research interests are: Bayesian statistics, Monte Carlo simulation, modeling of measurement uncertainty, filtering and prediction in state space models, and gravity field recovery via...

  4. May 31, 2011 · The body of Hamza Ali al-Khateeb. On April 29, demonstrators from villages surrounding Daraa, Syria, marched on the city in an attempt to break the Syrian military siege there. Their intent...

  5. Jul 2, 2024 · Protesters are galvanized by newly published images of the mutilated body of Hamza Ali al-Khatib, a 13-year-old boy from Darʿā who was tortured to death while in police custody. Photos of Khatib are distributed at protests, and the images become a potent symbol of the regime’s brutality.

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  6. Aug 2, 2016 · Hamza Ali al-Khatib, a 13-year-old boy who was brutally tortured, has become a rallying point for anger at the regime of President Bashar al-Assad.

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  8. Jun 1, 2011 · A 13-year-old boy whom activists say was brutally tortured has become an icon of the uprising against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's rule, the BBC's Jim Muir reports.