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The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (also known as SOHR; Arabic: المرصد السوري لحقوق الإنسان‎‎), founded in May 2006, is a UK-based information office that has been documenting human rights abuses in Syria which has focused since 2011 on the Syrian Civil War. It is frequently quoted by major news media, such as Voice of America, Reuters, BBC, CNN and National Public Radio, since the beginning of the uprising about daily numbers of deaths from all sides in the conflict and civilians killed in airstrikes in Syria. The news office is run from his home in Coventry by Rami Abdulrahman (sometimes referred to as Rami Abdul Rahman), a Syrian Sunni Muslim who owns a clothes shop. Born Osama Suleiman, he adopted a pseudonym during his years of activism in Syria, and has used it publicly ever since. After being imprisoned three times in Syria, Abdulrahman fled to the United Kingdom fearing a fourth jail term and has not returned since. In a December 2011 interview with Reuters, Abdulrahman said the observatory has a network of more than 200 people and that six of his sources had been killed. In April 2013, The New York Times described him being on the phone all day every day with contacts in Syria, and checking all information himself. SOHR has been accused of selective reporting, covering only violent acts of the government forces against the opposition for the first two years of its existence and reporting militant anti government fighters in dead civilians tolls, and has been described as being "pro-opposition". Syrian president Bashar al-Assad is of the opinion that SOHR is a one man operation that acts as a front for spreading anti-governmental messages into western media.