Wafa Mustafa

Wafa Mustafa (b. ) Mustafa's family was politically active and liberal, and her father took Wafa to demonstrations in Damascus in support of Palestine starting at age 10. Mustafa protested in front of the Libyan embassy at the beginning of the First Libyan Civil War, and when Syrian authorities attacked protesters and the Syrian civil war began, she became involved in protests. They lived in Turkey for 3 years, facing poverty, as they had taken only their passports. Wafa now lives in Berlin, and she graduated from Bard College Berlin in 2020 with a degree in humanities and arts.

Activism

Disappearance of Ali Mustafa Mustafa cites as motivation for her activism the disappearance of her father, Ali Mustafa, a human rights activist, who was seen for the last time on 2 July 2013. That day, Wafa recounts witnesses saying that a group of men attacked her family home, where she had been living for two months since the death of a close friend in a rocket attack. where she reports having been beaten and going on a hunger strike. She had been a journalism and media student at the time, but after her arrest, her name was put on a public black-list and so she was forced to quit her education.

On 23 July 2020, Mustafa briefed the UN Security Council on forced disappearance and detention in Syria.