The detainees of Homs Central Prison continue their hunger strike for the fifth consecutive day despite threats from the prison management that the prison will be raided and the hunger strike ended through forceful means. On 17/10/2017, the detainees of the prison made an open call, the text of which is: We, the detainees of […]
The Assad Files: Capturing the top-secret documents that tie the Syrian regime to mass torture and killings
The investigator in Syria had made the drive perhaps a hundred times, always in the same battered truck, never with any cargo. It was forty miles to the border, through eleven rebel checkpoints, where the soldiers had come to think of him as a local, a lawyer whose wartime misfortunes included a commute on their […]
Nusra Front Execute Prisoners in Abu Dhuhoor Military Airport
On 9/9/2015, the Nusra Front published images portraying tens of prisoners from the Syrian regime forces executed in Abu Dhuhoor Military airport in rural Idlib, a province under the control of the armed opposition after having been under siege for two years. According to social media sources of the Nusra Front, 65 soldiers and officers […]
Prison Swap releases 14 prisoners
This Wednesday saw a prisoner swap take place in Idlib between the Nusra Front and the Syrian regime in which seven prisoners were swapped on each side. According to a news report on the prison swap, the negotiations took place via an institution named “Call of the Prisoner”. However, the report did not clarify the […]
240 Detainees Released on Eid-ul-Fitr
The Syrian authorities released approximately 240 prisoners on Eid-ul-Fitr from Adra Prison in Damascus. The majority of these prisoners were from those who were sentenced by the so called “Crimes of terrorism” Court. There were 35 women among those released. Also among those released were Hani Zeitani and Hussein Ghrayr from the “Syrian Centre for […]
Tadmur Prison: A Special Report
Tadmur Prison (Palmyra) is counted among the worst reputed prisons internationally, having witnessed unprecedented atrocities for at least two decades, some of which has not been documented, and whose perpetrators have not been taken to court till today. Since its inception in 1997, the Syrian Human Rights Committee (SHRC) has worked on the case of […]
AI: Syria peace conference must act on allegations of ‘industrial-scale’ torture and killings in custody
Amnesty International: World leaders at the Geneva II peace conference on Syria must demand full access to investigate allegations that 11,000 people have been tortured and killed while in detention in the country and monitor conditions in detention, said Amnesty International. A report by former war crimes prosecutors and forensic experts is based on documents […]
60 Female Prisoners Released, whilst thousands remain imprisoned
The Syrian Human Rights Committee (SHRC) has learnt that the Syrian regime has, in the past few days, released a number of female prisoners held in prison since the beginning of the revolution along with some imprisoned from before. It has been recorded that approximately 60 female prisoners have been released on two occasions till […]
Daily Report on Violations of Human Rights in Syria: 9/10/2013
Seventy-four civilians were killed in Syria on Wednesday 9/10/2013, among them seven women and eighteen children. The largest number of those killed fell in Aleppo, in which 27 were killed, among them six from the Mashad area (among them four children) who died due to shelling, and five (among them three women) due to shelling […]