Rasha Sharbaji
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Rasha Sharbaji, also Shurbaji or Chorbaji, (Arabic: رشا شربجي) (born 1982 in Darayya, Syria)[1] is a Syrian mother. When Sharbaji went to get a passport, she was arrested with her children, to put pressure on her husband.[2] Sharbaji's husband died in 2014.[3]
In 2016, Samantha Power, the U.S. Ambassador to the U.N., named Sharbaji one of twenty women political prisoners in the Free the 20 campaign.[4]