Anwar Raslan appeared in the first court session on April 23 The trial sessions of Colonel Anwar Raslan started today (23 April) in Germany after 14 months of his arrest by the German authorities. He was the former deputy head of the investigation branch in the General Intelligence Department and the head of the investigation […]
The first in the world: Germany prosecutes two Syrian intelligence officers accused of “crimes against humanity”
A German court has announced that the hearings of two former Syrian intelligence officers accused of participating in “crimes against humanity” will begin in April. Legal activists at the European Centre for Constitutional and Human Rights said that this legal procedure is the first of its kind in the world that relates to torture carried […]
Urgent appeal to arrest and prosecute those involved in crimes against humanity in Syria
Senior Syrian regime officers responsible for crimes against humanity The Syrian Human Rights Committee calls on the governments across the world to arrest and prosecute those involved in crimes against humanity in Syria on their soil, including security officers and elements, shabiha, and economic supporters of the Syrian regime, and also calls on Syrian citizens […]
Russian Warplanes Commit Massacre in al-Atarib
Field sources from western rural Aleppo have reported that Russian war planes launched a number of air strikes on the town of al-Atarib today. The strikes targeted the main market of the town as well as the local police outpost. The sources reported the number of those killed as 62, in addition to 150 injured. […]
A Bloody Day in Aleppo
Aleppo witnessed one of its most bloodiest days on Friday, as war planes and helicopters targeted the districts of al-Qatirji, al-Kalasah, al-Muwasalat, al-Marjah, al-Neirab, al-Saliheen, al-Ma’adi, al-Ansari, al-Sakhoor, al-Firdaws and Bustan al-Qasr, killing 95 people- one of the highest death tolls to have occured during one day only in the province. Among the most prominent of […]
On the Anniversary of the Chemical Massacre: The Genocide Continues and the Criminals Remain Free
On 21/8/2013, regime forces targeted the areas of Zamalka and Ain Tarma in the Eastern Ghouta and the city of al-Mu’adamiya in the Western Ghouta with rockets laden with chemical substances, killing 1400 people and afflicting hundreds with various types of suffocation. This massacre is considered one of the bloodiest in the series of genocides […]
Internationally Wanted Lebanese Man Killed in Syria
The Lebanese national Mustafa Badreddine, who is wanted by the Interpol due to his indictment of participating in the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafeeq al-Hariri, was killed in Syria today under vague circumstances. Facts gleaned from journalism show that Badreddine was a militia leader for Hizbollah, which had raided al-Qusair in the beginning […]
Independent International Commission of Inquiry: No Peace without Criminals Being Taken to Account
The Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Syria has released its eleventh report on human rights in Syria and the violations taking place there. In its report, the commission said that Syria continued to witness flagrant violations of human rights and international humanitarian law unabated, and that these violations were aggravating due to blatant impunity […]
International Report: Systemised Torture Designed to Kill in Syrian Regime Prisons
The Independent International Committee of Inquiry on Syria has published a specialised report concerning acts of mass killing which detainees of the Syrian regime are subjected to, amounting to “extermination” – as it called it- of the civilian population, which is a crime against humanity. The inquiry commission, which works for the UN, called on […]
Hama 1982: A Turning Point and a Model being Replicated
On this same day in 1982, forces of the Syrian regime during the era of Hafiz al-Asad attacked the city of Hama, committing- within 27 days- one of the worst humanitarian terrors witnessed by Syria in the previous century, and in which approximately 30,000 people were killed according to estimations made by the Syrian Human […]