News & Views
December 10, 2018
Regime Intelligence Used Rape to Humiliate Victims
This silence could not be maintained by one of the women, who due to the terrible pain she suffered in the regime’s detention centers had nervous breakdown. This prompted her relatives to seek a consultation with a psychologist
December 6, 2018
Regime Exploits Syrian Law to Cover up Its Crimes
They stipulate that if a person is missing for four years, they are declared dead. This eliminates the requests from the commission and other agencies to hand over the bodies of prisoners and inform their families of what they’d been subjected to
December 3, 2018
The Assassination of Raed Fares, and the Day the Syrian Revolution Died
Last Friday, in Kafranbel, a van began following Fares and his friend Hamoud Juneid, a Radio Fresh reporter, as they drove through town. Men in the van opened fire on Fares’s vehicle
December 1, 2018
231 civilians killed in Syria last month
According to the report, three civilians were killed by armed opposition groups in Syria last month, while 47 others were killed by unidentified groups
November 15, 2018
Towards Accountability and Justice to End Impunity in Syria
The negotiations and political process in Geneva will not be able to establish a sustainable peace for any future state in Syria without a genuine accountability process and revealing the fate of Syria's disappeared is at its core. Therefore, we believe that it is our duty and the duty of countries that believe in human rights to prioritise enabling victims to reach justice and ensure there is no impunity for war crimes and crimes against humanity being committed in Syria up to this day
November 14, 2018
October 2018 Statistical Report on Casualties in Syria
October witnessed 138 battle deaths in Syria, 93 of which were civilian deaths. The majority of deaths took place in the province of Deir Ezzor
November 13, 2018
Hunger Strike in Hama Central Prison Over Death Sentences
The Assad regime’s field court issued death sentences against 11 prisoners in the Hama Central Prison following charges of “terrorism
November 13, 2018
The Caesar Families Association (CFA) welcomes the French international arrest warrants against senior security leaders in Syria
It should be noted that during a visit to Paris in September 2018, the CFA appealed to the French judiciary to take practical steps towards proceedings brought before it by a group of victims
November 8, 2018
Dabbagh Case: Who are Mazen and Patrick Abdulkader Dabbagh
Mazen and Patrick Abdelkader were taken to Mezzeh, the air intelligence detention center and forcibly disappeared. Noting that neither the father nor the son, had any prior anti-government activity before and after the March 2011 uprising