Inroduction International Organizatioins and the Human Rights Violation in Syria Amnesty International Organization, headquartered in London Human Rights Watch Organization, headquartered in New York The United Nations Human Rights Committee issued the following reports on the human rights violations in Syria International Committee for Defense of Human Rights in Syria, headquartered in Brussels INTRODUCTION One […]
The Syrian Human Rights Committee has issued its report on the human rights situation in Syria over a twenty-year period, at a time which coincides with rapid global changes and proper international developments, in favour of respecting democratic freedoms and safeguarding human rights. While the international trend is heading progressively towards promoting respect for human […]
There are several security bodies in Syria, the most terrifying of which is the Military Intelligence, presently headed by Hasan Khalil, General Intelligence headed by Hisham Bukhtiyar and Political Security Force headed by Ghazi Kan’an. In addition there are a number of bodies, including the Air Force Intelligence and Republican Guards, amounting to more than […]
There remain many prisons and interrogation centres throughout the country which are run in a non-centralised manner. Each security force supervises its own detention centres, to the extent that the prisoners of the Military Intelligence in Sednaya prison are kept by a special force, and are treated differently from those who are supervised by the […]
Numerous reports and recent news confirmed that torture and maltreatment of detainees remain common practice in all detention centres and prisons, particular Palestine Branch for Military Interrogation. These reports indicated that Muhammed Jamal Al-Wafa’i has been subject to severe torture, Osama Ali was tortured until his health condition seriously deteriorated and that Arwad Al-Boushi, Mousa […]
Also detained in Syria ’s prisons are individuals from various Arab nationalities, particularly neighbouring countries. SHRC believes that there are prisoners who are mainly Lebanese, Jordanian, Palestinian, and Iraqi, as well as others from other countries. The relatives of the missing Lebanese individuals formed a committee last year and met with the Syrian Minister of […]
Thousands of released political prisoners and prisoners of conscience have been deprived of their civil rights, and continue to suffer as a result of this inhumane act. Most of those cannot travel outside the country and are deprived of any chance of employment within the public sector, and even from establishing their own respective private […]
Human Rights organisations operating inside Syria , which the Syrian Government refuses to license, were subject to immense pressure in an attempt to prevent them from carrying out their work. Members of ‘Committees for Defending Human Rights in Suriyya’, which is headed by the lawyer Aktham Na’isa, was subject to intense harassment and numerous security […]
Efficiency within civil society and dialogue forums have dramatically receded under oppressive restrictions imposed by the Government, despite witnessing a revival during the first year of Bashar Asad’s presidency. Indeed, only a few unlicensed forums remain, and towards which the Government turns a blind eye, but which could be closed down at any moment, nevertheless. […]
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بقلم: ياسين الحـاج صـالـح نقلا عن النهار اللبنانية 1/7/2003 تروي هذه الأسطر تجربة مثقف سوري أمضى في السجن 15 عاما يروي فيها وقائع حياته اليومية في سجن تدمر ويدعو إلى تحويله نصباً يكرّم عذابات ضحاياه، ويسمّيه نصب التوبة. دمشق… لعلي لا اختلف عن سوريين كثيرين في النفور من أي تذكّر تفصيلي لوقائع من “سنوات […]