Syrian regime forces backed by Shabiha arrest protesters The Syrian regime forces backed by loyal elements (Shabiha) today, Monday 15/6/2020, attacked the demonstrators in the city of As-Suwayda in the south of the country, who gathered in Al-Sayr Square in the city centre to protest the deterioration of living conditions and the depreciation of the […]
Daily Report on Violations of Human Rights in Syria: 02/07/2017
The death toll in Syria on Sunday 02/07/2017 reached 20 deaths including eight children and two women. In Ar-Raqqah, nine civilians were killed, seven in international alliance shelling, and two shot by Qasd militia sniper. In addition, two died in Daraa, one as a result of indiscriminate shelling on al-Sanmeen, and the other in […]
Arrests as Army Recruitment Becomes Mandatory in Kurdish Areas
The “Defence and Protection Authority” of the Aljazeera area in Syria issued a ruling on 15/6/2017 including “immersed Arabs” in the compulsory army recruitment, from which they had previously been exempt. The “immersed Arabs” are those that came from Alhasaka as part of the Agrarian Reform project in 1974. The majority of them are from […]
Daily Report on Violations of Human Rights in Syria: 30/10/2014
The total death toll in Syria on Thursday 30/10/2014 reached 49 deaths including a woman and 31 civilians killed under torture. In the capital Damascus and its suburbs six were killed; four in shelling on Ain Tarma in the suburbs and two were shot by government forces. In Homs 29 civilians were killed; one in […]
Why are there no Statistics for Enforced Disappearances in Syria?
Despite how large and wide-scale the issue of enforced disappearances is in Syria, the numbers and statistics provided by human rights organisations- both Syrian and international- remain approximate, with differences between them sometimes reaching 100%, and no organisation being able to reveal the names of all those released. This is due to many reasons, some […]
Syria: fears for prominent human rights lawyer abducted at weekend
Posted: 22 May 2013 A prominent Syrian human rights lawyer who went missing at the weekend after an apparent abduction is at grave risk of abuse, Amnesty International has said. Abdullah al-Khalil, who became head of the local council for al-Raqqa Governorate after armed opposition groups took control in March, was reportedly taken away by […]