There are just 30 doctors left to care for rebel-held east Aleppo\u2019s 250,000 residents who are suffering heavy Russian-backed Syrian government shelling. \u00a0 The last cariologist in Aleppo\u2019s eastern neighbourhood describes the situation in the city as \u201cinescapable hell\u201d.\u00a0 According to the Syrian Network for Human Rights, over 600 medical staffers have been killed in the past few years.\u00a0 \u00a0Aleppo \u2013 Syrian Cardiologist, \u00a0Moawyah al-Awad, is now forced to operate from an undisclosed location after the original site has been destroyed by a deliberate Russian airstrike on 27th April 2016 where hospital staff work daily surrounded by dead bodies, blood and injured civilians. \u00a0The disastrous humanitarian situation in Aleppd, and feeling helpless, led the doctor to file a suit against Russia at the European Court of Human Rights. Various European activists suggested that he launches a legal case against Russia for violating his and the patients\u2019 human rights.<\/p>\n
Awad\u2019s case lodged with the European Court has been sent to the foreign ministries of the UK, France, U.S. and other European countries. It has also been provided to all relevant U.N. bodies and special rapporteurs. \u00a0British solicitor and human rights activist Gareth Peirce is representing Awad as well as Sajida Malik.<\/p>\n
A press release said, \u00a0\u201cDr. Al-Awad\u2019s case against Russia is brought to life not only on the basis of its violation of his right, and that of his patients (Article 2 of The Convention), but Article 3 as well \u2013 that its actions inflict inhuman and degrading treatment is unarguable.\u201d Awad said that he doesn\u2019t expect for this lawsuit to change the course of the Syrian crisis, but it will expose Russia\u2019s violations.<\/p>\n
Testimony from the \u00a0U.N. Chief Humanitarian Official, Stephen O\u2019Brien, states that on 29th September, describing the circumstances in Aleppo, O\u2019Brien said, \u201cLet me be clear, east Aleppo this minute is not at the edge of the precipice, it is well into its terrible descent into the pitiless and merciless abyss of a human catastrophe unlike any we have witnessed in Syria. Syria is bleeding. Its citizens are dying. We all hear their cry for help\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"