Omar Alshogre (Arabic: عمر الشغري) is a Syrian refugee, a public speaker and a human rights activist.

He is known for his efforts to raise awareness of human rights abuses in Syria and his personal experience of torture and starvation by the Syrian government during his three years of detention.

[2] Alshogre spent a year and nine months in Branch 215, a military intelligence detention center in central Damascus.

[5] Alongside other detainees, he experienced daily torture, including by electrical shock, beatings with cable and metal, and the removal of his finger nails.

He travelled to Europe as a refugee seeking to obtain access to medical treatment and escape from the regime.

[8] He has given testimony to German lawyers and prosecutors as well as to European war crimes investigators to build cases against the Syrian regime.

The Nation has noted Alshogre "[a]s one of the few to survive the slaughterhouse of Sednaya, and someone who has personally tagged over 8,000 bodies, who appears in various media and can rattle off the names and locations of multiple military prisons, including the brigadier general in charge of each facility and the names of deceased inmates and their home towns, Omar is a formidable and feared witness".

[10][11] In June 2020, Alshogre appealed to his former torturer in Syria through a video posted on his YouTube channel and highlighted by Al Jazeera,[12] expressing a hope that he would remain in good health but recognizing that the coronavirus leveled the difference between weak and strong, jailer and detainee.

He also travels and gives speeches across the US and Europe, including at the UN Security Council,[15] TEDxGeorgetown,[16] Harvard Law School and at the Human Rights Foundation’s Oslo Freedom Forum in Norway.