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Syria in HRW World Report 2020

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Events in Syria of 2019 reinforced the conclusion that the atrocities and rights violations that have characterized the conflict continued to be the rule, not the exception. The Syrian-Russian military alliance in April re-launched military operations against Idlib, the last anti-government foothold, with indiscriminate attacks and prohibited weapons. Areas recaptured by the government saw property […]

Syria: Thousands of Displaced Confined to Camps

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View from hill overlooking Ain Issa displacement camp in Syria, May 2018.  © Human Rights Watch  (Beirut) – The de facto authorities of two areas of northeast Syria are unlawfully restricting the movement of people who escaped from Islamic State (also known as ISIS)-held areas in displacement camps, Human Rights Watch said today. Authorities from the Syrian […]

Human Rights Watch Report 2018: Syria

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https://www.hrw.org/world-report/2018/country-chapters/syria The fight against the Islamic State (also known as ISIS) emerged as the top priority for Syria’s multiple warring parties in 2017. The government, with the assistance of Russia, Iran and Hezbollah, retook large parts of Central and Eastern Syria from ISIS while US-backed Syria Democratic Forces controlled Raqqa. The race to secure territory […]

HRW: Syria/Russia: Airstrikes, Siege Killing Civilians

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Allow Urgent Aid into Besieged Eastern Ghouta and End Indiscriminate Attacks Print Children in the rubble of damaged buildings in the eastern Damascus suburb of Ghouta, Syria. (Beirut) – Syrian government and Russian forces have escalated their airstrikes on Eastern Ghouta, a suburb approximately 15 kilometers from the center of Syria’s capital Damascus, killing dozens of civilians in apparently […]

Five years on the dissolution of The Supreme State Security Court: Repression as a court

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The Supreme State Security Court (SSSC) represented one of the main pillars of the repressive regime established by the Ba’ath party upon their seizing of power via military coup in 1963. The SSSC was an expression of the regime’s disdain for law since its creation in 1963 and until its dissolution in 2011, five years […]

Human Rights Watch Report: A New Spate of Barrel Bomb Attacks

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(New York) – The Syrian government has carried out hundreds of new indiscriminate attacks over the past year with air-delivered munitions, including improvised weapons such as barrel bombs. The attacks have had a devastating impact on civilians, killing or injuring thousands of people. Human Rights Watch documented the attacks in Aleppo governorate in northern Syria and in […]

HRW documents Abuses in Areas under Kurdish Control

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Human Rights Watch has issued a report detailing human rights violations committed in the areas controlled by the Democratic Union Party (PYD)- an offshoot of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in Turkey. The report documents the arbitrary arrests of those who oppose the PKK and violations committed whilst they were detained, as well as cases […]

International Report: 85 Places Subjected to Shelling in Aleppo since 22/2/2014

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A report released by Human Rights Watch (HRW) claims that the organisation has documented 85 places which have been targeted by the bombing of explosive barrels during the 40 days after the UN Security Council decree 2139 was issued on 22/2/2014. The places documented by the report include official hospitals on which were clear signs […]

Human Rights Watch: New Deadly Cluster Munition Attacks

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Human Rights Watch : Syrian government forces are using a powerful type of cluster munition rocket not seen before in the conflict, Human Rights Watch said today. The new use of cluster munitions is causing civilian casualties and adding to the country’s already devastating legacy of unexploded ordnance. Evidence indicates that government forces used the […]

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 […]