Rima Hassan

Hassan's story moves me precisely because none of its starting conditions were chosen for her. Born stateless in a refugee camp near Aleppo, arriving in France around age nine, she could have settled into quiet survival; instead she studied law and turned her own displacement into a vocation defending others. Whatever one's politics, that trajectory commands respect. What interests me most is the conversion of biography into conviction: a person who knew what it meant to have no rights deciding to spend her life arguing for them. That kind of root-deep motivation tends to outlast any single political moment.

Name (English)

Rima Hassan

Name (Japanese)

リマ・ハッサン

Reading

りま・はっさん

Born

April 28, 1992 (age 34)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Taurus / Monkey

Origin

Al-Nayrab Camp, Aleppo Governorate, Syria

Occupation

political activist / jurist / politician / human rights defender

University

University of Évry Val d'Essonne

• Official sitehttps://rimahassan.fr
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/rimamobarak/
• Xhttps://x.com/RimaHas
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rima%20Hassan
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%AA%E3%83%9E%E3%83%BB%E3%83%8F%E3%83%83%E3%82%B5%E3%83%B3
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q123232131

Tags

• Aleppo Governorate
• political activist
• jurist
• politician

Last updated

2026-06-18

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.