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OPCW’s Report on the use of chemical weapons in Ltamenah

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The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) released today the findings of the first report by the OPCW Investigation and Identification Team (IIT). The IIT is responsible for identifying the perpetrators of the use of chemical weapons in the Syrian Arab Republic where the OPCW Fact-Finding Mission (FFM) has determined that chemical weapons have been […]

US Financial Sanctions: Specially Designated Nationals List

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The following individuals have been added to OFAC’s SDN List:   ‘ABBAS, Rim, Syria; DOB 25 Mar 1973; nationality Syria; Scientific Studies and Research Center Employee (individual) [SYRIA].   ‘ABBUD, Hikmat, Syria; DOB 01 Jan 1966; nationality Syria; Scientific Studies and Research Center Employee (individual) [SYRIA].   ‘ABD-AL-JALIL, Yahya, Syria; DOB 26 Sep 1960; nationality […]

Tadmur: Witnessed & Observed, A book by SHRC

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In this book : ‘Tadmur: Witnessed & Observed’,  Muhammad Saleem Hammad recalls his 11-year horrific ordeal in the Syrian prisons which summarises the suffering and ordeal lived by many thousands of Syrian citizens under the dictatorship rule of Hafiz Al-Asad. The Syrian regime denied consistently the existence of conscience and political detainees in Syrian jails, […]

Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator Stephen O’Brien Statement to the Security Council on Syria – 26 October 2016

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Mr. President, Let me take you to East Aleppo this afternoon – in a deep basement, huddled with your children and elderly parents the stench of urine and the vomit caused by unrelieved fear never leaving your nostrils, waiting for the bunker-busting bomb you know may kill you in this, the only sanctuary left to […]

US Department of State: Country Reports on Human Rights Practices in Syria for 2015

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President Bashar Asad has ruled the Syrian Arab Republic since 2000. The constitution mandates the primacy of Baath Party leaders in state institutions and society. Asad and Baath party leaders dominated all three branches of government. Neither the 2014 presidential election won by Asad, nor the geographically limited 2012 parliamentary elections won by the Baath […]

Human Rights Council: Oral Update of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Syrian Arab Republic

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Human Rights Council Twenty Ninth session Agenda item 4 Human rights situations that require the Council’s attention Oral Update of the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Syrian Arab Republic* Introduction The war in Syria has entered its fifth year and shows no signs of abating. It has mutated into a multi-sided and highly […]

The children of Syria’s Ghouta

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Residents of East Ghouta, on the outskirts of the Syrian capital Damascus, have witnessed terrible conditions for more than a year, with clashes and shelling from Syrian government forces causing widespread death, destruction and hardship. Rebel fighters are also blamed for violent human rights abuses in other parts of the country. The war’s effect on […]

HRW : The Dark Stories Children Tell in Syria

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“Nearly three years ago, when I first traveled to Syria to interview children about the worsening events in their country, they all had a story to tell. Those stories were awful—16-year-olds detained and tortured in dark government cells , and boys who sustained serious bullet wounds in anti-government protests. But these days, children with just […]

‎10. Death Due to Torture‎

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In considerable cases torture leads to death, but the ‎authorities do not acknowledge that. When the corpse of the ‎detainee is handed over to his relatives they are told not to ‎open the coffin and to burry it promptly, while the report of the ‎prison’s doctor explains out the death as the result of a […]