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Image source: news.un On November 15, 2024, the United States reaffirmed its full support for the measures issued by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) one year ago, aimed at compelling the Syrian regime to prevent torture and other forms of cruel treatment, as well as protecting evidence related to these crimes. the International Court of…
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Image source: United Nations Photo The Atlantic Council has emphasized the urgent necessity of referring the situation in Syria to the International Criminal Court (ICC). In an article published on September 26, 2024, titled “Member States Should Refer the Situation in Syria to the International Criminal Court,” the Atlantic Council (a nonpartisan think tank focused on…
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Image source: caesar families org The website “Caesar Families Association” reported that families of victims affected by the Syrian regime have filed a criminal complaint in a German court against a group of officers involved in crimes against humanity. On September 23, 2024, four families who suffered at the hands of the Syrian intelligence services submitted…
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Two Syrian youths were killed under torture in Sednaya Prison, located near the capital, Damascus, after being detained for approximately two years. Local sources confirmed the death of the two Syrian youths, who were from Daraa Governorate in southern Syria. According to the source, the families of the two youths received their bodies on Saturday,…
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Image source: hrw Venezuelan authorities have been committing widespread abuses against protesters, opposition members, and critics in the aftermath of the July 28, 2024, presidential elections, Human Rights Watch reported. On September 4, 2024, the organization urged Venezuelan authorities to allow independent verification of the election results and called on the international community to support efforts…
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Image source: wikimedia On August 5, 2024, the Chief of the Bangladeshi Army announced the resignation of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina following the bloodiest day of weeks-long anti-government demonstrations. Army Commander Wackeruzzaman confirmed Sheikh Hasina’s resignation and her flight from the protests that began in early July 2024. In a speech on state television, the army…
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Image source: flickr An Iranian organization has revealed that the number of executions in Iran over the past seven months has surpassed 300, including several foreigners. On August 3, 2024, the Iranian Human Rights Organization (IHRNGO) published a report confirming that Iranian authorities carried out 305 executions between January and July 2024. The organization reported that…
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Image source: @pkroker2 Syrian lawyer and human rights activist Anwar al-Bunni confirmed that the German judiciary has upheld the life imprisonment sentence against former Syrian regime officer Anwar Raslan. Al-Bunni posted on his page on the platform X that the German Federal Court of Justice upheld the verdict issued by the Koblenz court in January 2022…
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Paris, July 24, 2024 – The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has excluded Omar al-Aroub, the head of the Syrian regime’s Paralympic Committee, from participating in the 2024 Paris Paralympic Games due to accusations of war crimes. The decision comes amid mounting pressure from Syrian opposition groups. According to Liberation, a leading French newspaper, al-Aroub was…
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The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) Investigation and Identification Team (IIT)’s fourth report concludes that there are reasonable grounds to believe that units of the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) were the perpetrators of the chemical weapons attack on 1 September 2015 in Marea, Syria. The IIT’s comprehensive investigation was conducted…
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Syrian activists have called for a ban on a “war criminal” from attending the French Olympics, coming from areas controlled by the Syrian regime. Syrian human rights activists and journalists have launched a petition addressed to the Olympic Committee to prevent Omar Al-Aroub from participating in the Paris Olympics, which is set to commence on…
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A Syrian youth died under torture in the regime’s prisons on July 6, 2024, after being deported from Lebanon to Syria. The young man, Ahmad Nimer Al-Halli, was tortured in the notorious Palestine Branch in Damascus following his “forcible” deportation from Lebanon to his home country of Syria, leading to his death. Al-Halli, from the…
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June 26 marks the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, coinciding with the implementation of the United Nations Convention against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, which came into force in 1987. The United Nations General Assembly, in its resolution 52/149 on December 12, 1997, proclaimed June 26 as…
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Image source: wikimedia On June 25, 2024, the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued arrest warrants for two Russian officials on charges of committing crimes in Ukraine. The arrest warrants were issued for former Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu and Chief of the General Staff General Valery Gerasimov, on charges of committing international crimes, war crimes, and…
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On June 5, 2024, Wad al-Noura village in Gezira State, Sudan, witnessed the deaths of more than 100 individuals after the Rapid Support Forces stormed the area. Reports on the death toll from the Wad al-Noura massacre vary widely, ranging from 150 to 200 fatalities, including children, women, and the elderly. This discrepancy is largely…
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Human Rights Watch commemorated the 35th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre, emphasizing that survivors continue to face violations and repression from the Chinese government to this day. For 35 years, the Chinese government has refused to acknowledge responsibility for the killings or provide compensation to the victims’ families. Each year, individuals who attempt to…
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For about 3 months, opposition areas in northwestern Syria have been experiencing popular demonstrations against Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham and its leader al-Julani, which began in Sarmada and then included several cities in Idlib province and rural Aleppo. Arrests have increased significantly over the past months against the backdrop of demonstrations that affected civilians, and demonstrations…
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A detainee with American citizenship died under torture in the prisons of the Syrian regime, after being detained for about 3 years, and he is the second American to announce his death within two weeks. Jamal al-Metni, a Syrian-American citizen, was arrested after an armed group stormed his home in Sweida governorate and kidnapped him…
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A video circulated on social media showed a kidnapped Syrian youth in Lebanon, pleading and appealing for a ransom to be paid for his release, while the Lebanese authorities did not comment on the video. The video shows the kidnapped young man being tortured by a gang after being kidnapped in the Hermel area in…
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Image source: flickr On May 24, 2024, a French court sentenced three senior Syrian regime officials to life imprisonment in absentia. The Paris Criminal Court convicted these officials of complicity in crimes against humanity and war crimes following the deaths of two French nationals detained in Syria in 2013. The court upheld the international arrest…
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On May 24, 2024, a French court sentenced three senior Syrian regime officials to life imprisonment in absentia. The Paris Criminal Court convicted these officials of complicity in crimes against humanity and war crimes following the deaths of two French nationals detained in Syria in 2013. The court upheld the international arrest warrants against Major…
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Amnesty International and a group of United Nations experts have called for the immediate release of five Baha’is who have been detained in Yemen for a year. In a report published on May 23, 2024, Amnesty International stated that the “de facto Houthi authorities” must release the five Baha’i detainees in Sana’a immediately and unconditionally.…
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On Tuesday, May 21, 2024, the Criminal Court in Paris began the trial of three senior Syrian regime officials on charges of complicity in war crimes and crimes against humanity for their roles in the deaths of French citizens. This trial (continuing until May 24) is the first of its kind in France, where senior…
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The daughter of the doctor, Majd Kam Almaz, announced on May 18, 2024, the death of her father under torture after his arrest in the prisons of the Syrian regime forces in 2017. Mariam Kam Almaz posted on the site X, confirming that the Syrian government had kidnapped her father and killed him in their…
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Image source: flickr On May 17, 2024, Amnesty International called on the Jordanian authorities to immediately stop the forced deportation of two detained refugees to Syria. Amnesty stated that Jordan must immediately halt the forced deportation of the two Syrian refugees who are believed to be “facing real risks of severe human rights violations if…
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Lebanon has resumed deporting Syrians in its country to their country, after a “racist” campaign against which Syrians were subjected throughout the previous period, in light of the spread of reminders from international bodies that Syria is still “unsafe.” On May 14, 2024, the Lebanese General Directorate of Public Security re-operated two “voluntary return” flights…
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Image source: flickr The month of May will witness the start of the trial of Syrian regime officials Ali Mamlouk, Jamil Hassan, and Abdel Salam Mahmoud before the French Court of Assizes, after 13 months of waiting. The court accuses the regime officials of complicity in committing crimes against humanity and war crimes, including the…
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Image source: needpix Over the past 14 years in Syria, tens of thousands of people have lost their lives under torture in Syrian prisons, while thousands of detainees have been forcibly disappeared since 2011 until today. The conditions of detention and imprisonment in Syria are unlike those in other countries. Prisoners suffer from harsh conditions,…
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Image source: hrw Human Rights Watch has deemed that the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in Darfur, Sudan, are conducting “ethnic cleansing” operations against “non-Arab” ethnicities. On May 9, 2024, Human Rights Watch published a report stating that the RSF and allied militias in Geneina, the capital of West Darfur State in Sudan, killed thousands of…
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Source of Picture: syacd On May 7, 2014, the province of Homs in central Syria witnessed the departure of the first batch of what were dubbed as “opposition fighters” from their city, marking the beginning of a series of forced displacement of civilians that affected several Syrian cities, with the latest being in 2018. About…
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Source of Picture: 3omalasyr Syrians recalled the eleventh anniversary of the Bayda massacre in the countryside of Banias on the Syrian coast west of Syria, committed by the Syrian regime forces, which claimed the lives of hundreds of civilians, and called for holding all perpetrators of the crime accountable. On May 2 and 3, 2013,…
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Lebanon has witnessed the departure of thousands of Syrians over the past four months due to the harsh living conditions and increasing campaigns of repression and forced deportation against them, which have included activists and defectors from the Syrian regime. The International Organization for Migration confirmed on April 30, 2024, that 3,000 Syrians had left…
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Image source: picryl Amnesty International condemned the execution of 13 men by Iraqi authorities, after they were convicted on terrorism-related charges described as “vague and broad.” In a report published on April 25, 2024, Amnesty International called on the Iraqi government to immediately halt all executions. On April 22, the Iraqi authorities executed 13 men…
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It seems that the pleas to the United Kingdom not to activate the migration law to Rwanda have fallen on deaf ears, despite the devastating impact of this law and the endangerment of the lives of refugees who sought safety in Britain. The British Home Office has stated that it has begun to identify asylum…
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Image source: needpix Human Rights Watch considered the new Kazakh law aimed at protecting women and children from violence as incomplete. The organization published a report on April 23, 2024, assessing the Kazakh government’s efforts to improve the new law aimed at enhancing the protection of women and children from violence, including survivors of domestic violence.…
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Amnesty International warned in its report on the human rights situation for the years 2023-2024 of the accelerating pace of the collapse of “the rule of law” due to the rapid advancement of artificial intelligence technologies, developed by giant technology companies, which enhances the risks of human rights violations. Amnesty International added that the use…
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Source of Picture: pxhere The US Department has spoken about the “crimes” of the Chinese government against its citizens, especially towards Muslim minorities and other ethnicities in Xinjiang, describing them as “genocide and crimes against humanity”. The US Department published its annual report on human rights practices for the year 2023, addressing the Chinese…
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On April 22, 2024, Human Rights Watch released a report detailing serious violations committed by Iranian security forces during their suppression of protests in 2022 and 2023. Human Rights Watch stated that Iranian security forces “sexually assaulted and tortured detainees” during the protests of 2022 and 2023, considering what it described as “serious violations” to…
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Amnesty International released a report on April 17, 2024, discussing violations against detainees in areas controlled by the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in northeastern Syria. The report highlighted systematic violations against more than 56,000 detainees, including 14,500 women and 30,000 children, leading to the deaths of many due to inhumane conditions in at least 29…
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A member of the Syrian regime’s National Defense Forces faces a possible life sentence for committing “war crimes”, as the Higher Regional Court in Hamburg, Germany, began hearing the charges against him. The German Federal Prosecutor’s Office filed charges before the State Security Council of the Higher Regional Court in Hamburg on March 62, last…
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Every year, Syrians and human rights activists commemorate the anniversary of the “Tadamon massacre,” which occurred on April 16, 2013. During this event, elements of the Syrian regime executed a group of civilians by throwing them into a pit and then shooting them. On April 27, 2022, The Guardian newspaper published an investigation revealing that…
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The Swedish judiciary held the first sessions of the trial of a former brigadier general in the Syrian regime forces, accused of committing “war crimes” and inciting them in 2012. The former brigadier general appeared before the Stockholm court in Sweden on April 15, 2024, in the first hearing session, accused of committing “war crimes”…
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Statemnt by Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office in UK The Minister of State for the Middle East, South Asia, UN and the Prime Minister’s Special Representative on Preventing Sexual Violence in Conflict, Lord (Tariq) Ahmad of Wimbledon has condemned Daesh use of chemical weapons in Syria. An Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW)…
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Estonia highlighted the report of the OPCW on the use of chemical weapons in Syria at a UN Security Council meeting Yesterday 12 May, a video meeting was held at the UN Security Council on the issue of chemical weapons in Syria, and as the current President, Estonia invited Fernando Arias, the Director-General of the…