Dec 8, 2024 · In a statement broadcast live on Syrian national television on Sunday, the opposition forces claimed to have ended Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s rule and freed political prisoners. Assad is reported to have left the country.

Dec 23, 2024 · The transitional Syrian authorities should urgently take steps to secure and preserve evidence of atrocities committed under the government of former President Bashar al-Assad, including key government and intelligence documents as well as the sites of atrocities and mass graves, the Association of Detainees and the Missing in Sednaya Prison ...

Dec 8, 2024 · Amnesty International’s 2017 report “Human Slaughterhouse” revealed how Syrian authorities under President Bashar al-Assad had carried out killings, torture, enforced disappearance, mass hangings and extermination of detainees – in the Saydnaya military prison, Syria’s most notorious detention center – as part of a widespread and ...

In a statement broadcast live on Syrian national television on Sunday, the opposition forces claimed to have ended Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s rule and freed political prisoners. Assad is reported to have left the country.

On 15 November, French judges issued international arrest warrants for Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad, his brother Maher al-Assad and two other senior officials on charges of complicity in crimes against humanity and war crimes over the use of banned chemical weapons against civilians in Eastern Ghouta in Damascus Countryside in August ...

Dec 9, 2024 · Amnesty International’s 2017 report “Human Slaughterhouse” revealed how Syrian authorities under President Bashar al-Assad had carried out killings, torture, enforced disappearance, mass...

Dec 8, 2024 · Under the rule of Bashar al-Assad, and before him, his father Hafez al-Assad, Syrians have been subjected to a horrifying catalogue of human rights violations that caused untold human suffering on a vast scale.

Dec 23, 2024 · Amnesty International further asked the new administration to take urgent steps to collect and preserve evidence of atrocities enacted by the government of former president Basher al-Assad. Researchers from Amnesty and two other human rights organizations visited Damascus in December 2024 and reviewed including 10 detention facilities, the ...

In a statement broadcast live on Syrian national television earlier today, opposition forces claimed to have ended Syrian president Bashar al-Assad’s rule and freed political prisoners. Assad is reported to have left the country.

Responding to the news that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has enacted a new anti-torture law that fails to address a decade of torture, ill-treatment and extrajudicial executions carried out by Syria’s security forces, Lynn Maalouf, Amnesty International’s Deputy Regional Director for the Middle East and North Africa, said: