UK Foreign Office, London SHRC Welcome UK new sanctions against Assad’s regime The Syrian Human Rights Committee welcomed the initiative of the UK government to impose sanctions on six Syrian regime influential actors, for grave human rights violations in Syria, at various levels, and called for more effective measures to compel Bashar al-Assad to respond […]
Syrian doctor in Germany charged of practicing torture
On December 16, 2020, the Federal Prosecutor’s Office issued a memorandum against the Syrian doctor Alaa Moussa, in which he extended his detention and charged him with crimes against humanity. The German authorities had arrested the Syrian doctor Alaa Moussa on June 19, 2020. The arrest operation on charges of practicing torture in hospitals while […]
Rifaat al-Assad retains highest French order of merit despite crimes against humanity
Rifaat al-Assad, who was sentenced to four years in prison by the French judiciary for the embezzlement of public funds, tax evasion and money laundering, retains the highest French order of merit that is the Legion of Honour. The Syrian Human Rights Committee (SHRC) calls upon the President of the Republic France, Mr. Emmanuel Macron, […]
Former Syrian intelligence officer trialed in Germany
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 […]