When the revolution began in the middle of March 2011, Syria entered an unprecedented stage of violence committed against its civilians by the regime. The number of daily human rights violations has surged, making it difficult for the different human rights organisations to track. The death toll and arbitrary detentions have reached unprecedented numbers. Syria […]
The Tenth Annual Report on Human Rights in Syria 2010
The ruling regime in Syria is the most oppressing and harsh towards its citizens throughout the entire Arab region. It has been ruling in accordance to a state of emergency ever since the military coup in 1963. This rule has brought with it a number of laws and tools that are reprehensible such as military […]
The Ninth Annual Report on Human Rights in Syria 2008
The Syrian Human Rights Committee has tried to observe some of the fundamental aspects of human rights in Syria, particularly the human right to live free from arbitrary detention and degrading treatment. However, the Syrian Authority, which has imposed a state of emergency on the country for the last 47 years unjustifiably, is still suppressing […]
The Eighth Annual Report on Human Rights in Syria 2008
The eighth annual human rights report in Syria covers the period from January to December 2008. It is the eighth report to document human rights abuses during the tenure of president Bashar Al – Assad. The year 2008 witnessed unprecedented abuses of human rights in Syria, regressing to the levels that were the norm in […]
The Seventh Annual Report on Human Rights in Syria 2006-2007
The Seventh Report on Human Rights Status in Syria covers the period from the beginning of June 2006 to the end of 2007. The report was due to be published on 27th of June 2007, however the Syrian Human Rights Committee (SHRC) decided that its annual report be issued in January of every year instead. […]
The Sixth Annual Report on Human Rights in Syria 2006
Human Rights in Syria reached its lowest point since Bashar Al-Asad became President in mid-2000, when security and intelligence forces carried out widespread arrests in mid-May 2006, including 16 political opposition figures and civil society and human rights activists, after they had signed a petition calling for Syria to normalise its relations with Lebanon. The […]
SHRC Annual Report Summary about Human Rights in Syria
The deterioration in human rights conditions in Syria during this last year is the worst yet since 2000 Syrian Human Rights Committee found that human rights conditions in Syria suffered “fundamental setbacks,” considered the worst since Bashar Assad assumed the presidency five years ago, according to the fifth annual report issued by SHRC covering the […]
Annual Report on Human Rights in Syria 2005
The human rights condition in Syria, documented in this report, has witnessed a setback in fundamental issues during the last year, between June 2004 and May 2005. This has led to the vanishing of hopes for improvement on the human rights situation in Syria. During this time, the country succumbed to a state of extremism […]
The fourth Annual Report on Human Rights in Syria 2003-3004
Covering the Period from 1/7/2003 to 20/6/2004 Introduction: The humanitarian situation in Syria had reacted during the past year towards further deterioration, as the regime failed to take an earnest step towards the long-waited pledge to implement reforms throughout the four years since Bashar al-Asad assumed the presidency of the Republic. Several cases of arbitrary […]
The third Annual Report on Human Rights in Syria 2002-2003
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