Samira Khalil (Arabic: سميرة الخليل) is a Syrian dissident, former political detainee and a revolutionary activist from the Homs region of Syria.
Khalil is currently missing after being abducted in Douma on December 9, 2013, along with fellow activists Razan Zaitouneh, Wael Hamada, and Nazem Hammadi.
[4][5] After her imprisonment in the eighties, Khalil operated a publishing house before shifting her efforts to working with the families of detainees and writing about detention in Syria.
[7] It seems possible if not probable that Jaysh al-Islam is responsible for Khalil's disappearance given their control of the area in which she and the other activists went missing.
[1][3] Khalil was awarded the Petra Kelly Prize by the Heinrich Böll Foundation in 2014 for her work at the Center for Documentation of Violations in Syria.