Louay Hussein

Louay Hussein (1960 – 10 March 2022) was a Syrian writer and opposition activist. He was also the founder of the Building the Syrian State Movement.

Life
Louay Hussein was born in Damascus in 1960 to Alawite parents, and attended its schools until he joined the Department of Philosophy at Damascus University. He was arrested for the first time while he was a university student in 1984. He was released in 1991.

Due to his support for the Daraa protests, he was detained once more on 22 March 2011.

In a video leaked in 2015 he appeared to be praising Bashar al-Assad saying "The shoes of Bashar al-Assad, and anyone in the intelligence service is more honorable than the revolution".

Hussein, died in Madrid after suffering from lung cancer, at the age of 62.