Hamoud is a Syrian journalist, human rights defender, and activist. He co-founded Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently, which is an organisation that exposes the atrocities committed by the Bashar Al-Assad regime and ISIS in Syria.
Al-Mousa started non-violent protests and demonstrations against the Syrian regime in 2011 and was arrested by the regime three times in 2012. After ISIS took control of his hometown, Raqqa, in January 2014, he escaped to Turkey and started RBSS “Raqqa is being slaughtered silently” with his friends to show the reality of life in Raqqa under ISIS rule to the rest of the world. Their smuggled video footage and images for which they risked their lives have been shown on every television network and print media including CNN, BBC, Al-Jazeera, MSNBC.