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Harrowing accounts of torture, inhuman conditions and mass deaths in Syria’s prisons

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AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL PRESS RELEASE Thursday 18 August Harrowing accounts of torture, inhuman conditions and mass deaths in Syria’s prisons The horrifying experiences of detainees subjected to rampant torture and other ill-treatment in Syrian prisons are laid bare in a damning new report published by Amnesty International today which estimates that 17,723 people have died in […]

MSF Condemns Bombing of Al Quds Hospital which it Supports

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Gaziantep, Turkey, 28 April 2016 – The bombing of an MSF-supported Al Quds hospital in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo, on Wednesday night has killed at least 14 people, including at least two doctors said Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) today. According to hospital staff on the ground, the hospital was destroyed by at least […]

Syria: State profits from crimes against humanity as policy of enforced disappearances drives black market

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The vast scale and chillingly orchestrated nature of tens of thousands of enforced disappearances by the Syrian government over the past four years is exposed in a new report by Amnesty International published today. Between prison and the grave: Enforced disappearances in Syria reveals that the state is profiting from widespread and systematic enforced disappearances […]

Amnesty International Report Documents PYD Violations

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In a report published by Amnesty International, the organisation has said: The Democratic Union Party (PYD)-led autonomous administration in northern Syria is using a crackdown against terrorism and the armed group calling itself the Islamic State (IS) as a pretext to unlawfully detain and unfairly try peaceful critics and civilians believed to be sympathizers or […]

HRW: Thousands of Houses Unlawfully Razed

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Satellite imagery, witness statements, and video and photographic evidence show that Syrian authorities deliberately and unlawfully demolished thousands of residential buildings in Damascus and Hama in 2012 and 2013, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. The 38-page report, “Razed to the Ground: Syria’s Unlawful Neighborhood Demolitions in 2012-2013,” documents seven cases of […]

AI: Reversal of UK stance on resettling refugees must inspire wider action on Syria

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The UK government’s decision to resettle some of the most vulnerable refugees from Syria should encourage wider action on resettlement by the international community, particularly European and Gulf countries said Amnesty International “The UK’s pledge to offer resettlement places to refugees from Syria is long overdue, but should be widely welcomed as a positive and […]

HRW: Justice Essential for Durable Peace

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Five human rights priorities should be central to the discussions between the Syrian government and opposition delegations ahead of the opening of the first direct negotiations between the warring parties in Syria. The priorities should be justice, humanitarian aid access, rights-respecting treatment of detainees, security sector reform, and an end to the unlawful use of […]

Human Rights Watch Report: Incendiary Bombs are Killing Kids in Syria

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Human Rights Watch has released the following report. Read below or on their website here Incendiary Bombs are Killing Kids in Syria NOVEMBER 11, 2013 Author(s): Mary Wareham Published in: Politico For weeks, the Syrian Air Force had been bombing the Damascus suburb of Daraya. But on the morning of Nov. 16, 2012, something was […]

Dispatches: Mapping the Sarin Flight Path

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The UN inspectors investigating the chemical weapons attack on two suburbs in Damascus last month weren’t supposed to point the finger at the party responsible for the killings. But even so, theSellstrom report revealed key details of the attack that strongly suggest the government is to blame, and may even help identify the location from which […]

Cluster Munitions: Nations Condemn Syrian Use

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(Lusaka) – The international treaty banning cluster munitions is gaining in strength despite Syria’s use of the weapons, Human Rights Watch said today as a diplomatic meeting of the convention concluded in Lusaka, Zambia. “Syria is on the wrong side of history as it uses cluster bombs against its own people,” said Steve Goose, arms director at […]