Google Gemini

A community volunteer emailed Google's cloud compliance team asking it to review the restrictions on users in Syria, citing Syria's removal from the US state sponsors of terrorism list. No response was recorded.

A community volunteer wrote to Google support asking it to review the restriction on users in Syria, citing Syria's removal from the US state sponsors of terrorism list on 24 August 2026, and asked which regulation applies if it stays.

Google Gemini is now fully accessible from Syria: the country-level block has been lifted. Unblock Syria tested and validated access from inside Syria. The service had been documented as blocked since January 2026 and reported to Google over seven months. Status updated from blocked to accessible.

A community volunteer emailed Google's compliance team citing Syria's removal from the US state sponsors of terrorism list and Syria's first live Visa and Mastercard transactions in over 15 years as evidence of changed conditions. No response was recorded.

A community volunteer emailed Google's compliance team as part of a campaign to several companies including Riot Games, Apple and Meta, requesting a review of Syria's service restrictions following the lifted sanctions. No response was recorded.

A community volunteer emailed Google's compliance team citing Syria's removal from the US state sponsors of terrorism list and noting several companies, including Fedora, Kaggle, Firebase and AMBOSS, have already restored access. No response was recorded.

A community volunteer emailed Google's compliance team as part of a campaign to several companies, citing Syria's removal from the US state sponsors of terrorism list and asking which regulation, if any, still justifies restricting the service. No response was recorded.

The same volunteer followed up with Google's compliance team about five weeks later, repeating the request and citing Syria's removal from the US state sponsors of terrorism list on August 24, 2026. No response was recorded.

A community volunteer emailed Google's compliance team as part of a wider campaign to several tech companies, requesting a review of Syria's service restrictions in light of the lifted sanctions. No response was recorded.

A community volunteer emailed Google's compliance team noting that some Google services are already available in Syria while others are not, and asked for a company-level review to enable access across all Google products. No response was recorded.

A community volunteer sent a fifth independent outreach to Google's compliance team about Gemini access, addressing it directly to the Gemini team and citing the lifted sanctions. No response was recorded.

A community volunteer sent Google's compliance team a generic request to enable service access for Syrian users, citing the lifted sanctions and referencing Unblock Syria's documentation. No response was recorded.

Unblock Syria followed up officially with Google's compliance team, noting no response in 50 days. The email pointed out that 13 other Google services are already fully accessible in Syria, and that AI competitors DeepSeek and Perplexity have restored or are restoring access.

A journalist based in Syria emailed Google's compliance team urging immediate access to Gemini, Google AI Studio and related features, citing the fall of the former regime and the full lifting of US and EU sanctions.

A community volunteer emailed Google's compliance team requesting expanded Gemini access for Syrian users, emphasizing the importance of AI tools for education, research and professional development in Syria.

A community volunteer emailed both Unblock Syria and Google's compliance team directly with a generic request to enable Syria's access to Google's services, citing the lifted sanctions. No response from Google was recorded.

A community volunteer sent Google's compliance team a generic request to enable service access for Syria, citing the lifted sanctions and pointing to Unblock Syria's documentation. No response was recorded.

The same community volunteer followed up with Google's compliance team over a week later, repeating the request to review Syria's service restrictions in light of the lifted US and EU sanctions. No response was recorded.

A community volunteer wrote to Google's cloud compliance team, with us in Cc, urging Google to review continued restrictions on its services for Syrian users following the lifting of US and EU sanctions.

A community volunteer sent Google's compliance team two near-identical generic requests within a few hours, asking it to raise Syria's continued service restrictions with its legal and compliance team despite the lifted sanctions. No response was recorded.

A community volunteer emailed Google's compliance team asking it to review Syria's blocked-service restrictions, citing the December 2025 lifting of US and EU sanctions and requesting confirmation Syria can be onboarded. No response was recorded.

In a second live-chat session with a different support agent, the volunteer's request about Gemini access in Syria was escalated further: the agent promised to forward the feedback to management for review by Google's engineers.

A community volunteer contacted Google One Support via live chat about Gemini's availability in Syria. After explaining it is a sanctions-related block affecting all Syrians and sharing US Treasury documentation, the support agent agreed to forward the request to the relevant team.

A community volunteer, a Syrian developer, emailed Google's compliance team specifically requesting Gemini access for Syria, citing the lifted sanctions and current restrictions preventing his own use of the tool.

Unblock Syria emailed Google's compliance team requesting a review of Syria IP restrictions on Google Gemini, arguing the case for Syrian professionals working with foreign employers under the current post-sanctions legal framework.