Omar Alshogre
2024-2025 Obama Foundation Europe Leader
Director of Detainees Affairs, Syrian Emergency Task Force
Sweden
Omar Alshogre is the director of detainees affairs at the Syrian Emergency Task Force. He is a Syrian refugee and human rights advocate known for his personal experience with torture and starvation during three years of detention by the Syrian government. Omar is one of the few survivors of Syria’s prisons; he was smuggled out of detention with the help of his mother in June 2015. Today, Omar is a Swedish resident and dedicates his life to legal prosecutions against war criminals in Syria and liberating political prisoners around the world. He travels globally to speak on leadership during a crisis and is proud to be Syrian.
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