# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/nizar-nayyouf
# Generated: 2026-08-14T11:34:15.625Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/nizar-nayyouf"
name: "Nizar Nayyouf"
slug: "nizar-nayyouf"
description: "Nizar Nayyouf is a Syrian journalist, human rights activist, and dissident. He was one of the founding members of the Committee for the Defence of Democratic Freedom, a banned political organization in Syria, as well as editor-in-chief of صوت الديمقراطيِّة Sawt al-Democratiyya. He has criticized the Syrian government for human rights abuses, for which he was arrested and sentenced to ten years' imprisonment in 1991, most of which he spent in Mezzeh prison outside Damascus."
tagline: "Syrian journalist"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Journalists"
  slug: "journalists"
profileType:
  name: "Journalist"
  slug: "journalist"
birthDate: "1962-05-29"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           39.93
  momentum:             0.5555555555555556
  historical:           6.541793333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%B0%BC%E6%89%8E%E7%88%BE%C2%B7%E7%B4%8D%E5%B0%A4%E5%A4%AB"
    title: "尼扎爾·納尤夫"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%86%D8%B2%D8%A7%D8%B1_%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%88%D9%81"
    title: "نزار نيوف"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%86%D8%B2%D8%A7%D8%B1_%D9%86%D9%8A%D9%88%D9%81"
    title: "نزار نيوف"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nizar_Nayyouf"
    title: "Nizar Nayyouf"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%86%D8%B2%D8%A7%D8%B1_%D9%86%DB%8C%D9%88%D9%81"
    title: "نزار نیوف"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nizar_Nayyouf"
    title: "Nizar Nayyouf"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nizar_Nayyouf"
    title: "Nizar Nayyouf"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2221519"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump