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British Authorities Begin Freezing Rif’at al-Asad Assets

15-September-2017 By admin2

The British newspaper, “The Times” reported today that the British Public Prosecution has began to take measurements to freeze the assets of Rif’at al-Asad in Britain, which are over £300 million, according to the newspaper. The measurements taken encompass approximately 76 bank accounts owned by 16 people connected to al-Asad. The measurements taken are linked […]

Filed Under: Editors choice, Statements Tagged With: assets, bank account, British public prosecution, complaint, corruption, France, French judiciary, properties, real estates, Rif'at al-Asad, Spain

Tadmur (Palmyra) Prison Massacre: 36 Years Since the Crime

27-June-2016 By admin2

In the beginning of the 1980s, Syria witnessed a number of crimes against humanity in which thousands of Syrians were unlawfully killed, thousands were forcibly disappeared, and thousands of others were detained with no legal documents for various periods of time, and in which inhumane practises were inflicted upon them, causing a large number of […]

Filed Under: Editors choice, Statements Tagged With: 1980s Syria, Rif'at al-Asad, Tadmur (Palmyra) Prison Massacre, war crimes, war criminals

Rif’at al-Asad: War Criminal and Part of a Bloody System

15-September-2015 By shrc_admin

Last month (August 2015), BBC Arabic aired an interview with Ribaal Rif’at al-Asad, who devoted the whole duration of the interview to negate his father’s responsibility to the crimes which took place in Syria during the eighties, as well as denying that his father and the Defence Brigades participated in the Hama massacre, and that […]

Filed Under: Editors choice, Special reports Tagged With: Hafiz al-Asad, Hama Massacre 1982, Rif'at al-Asad, tadmur massacre 1980, Tadmur Prison

Tadmur Prison: A Special Report

27-May-2015 By admin2

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 […]

Filed Under: Editors choice, Special reports Tagged With: defence brigades, Detainees, Palmyra, prisoners, Rif'at al-Asad, Tadmur (Palmyra) Prison Massacre, Tadmur Prison, torture

Thirty three years on the Hama Massacre: The Criminals Remain Outside the Realm of Justice

2-February-2015 By admin2

On the 2/2/1982, forces of the Syrian army began targeting the city of Hama, in an attack which lasted 27 days and included a continuous series of massacres on different districts of the city, leading to the killing of approximately 30,000 civilians according to SHRC’s calculations, among them around 10,000 whose fate has not yet […]

Filed Under: Editors choice Tagged With: defence brigades, Hama Massacre 1982, international community, Rif'at al-Asad, statute of limitations, syrian army

Accused of the Tadmur Massacre

27-June-2014 By admin2

According to the confessions made by some of the perpetrators of the Tadmur Massacre, and according to the political and military structures in the units which participated in the massacre, those accused of the massacre whose names have been known include: 1. Hafiz al-Assad (President at the time of the Massacre) 2. Rif’at al-Assad (Commander […]

Filed Under: Editors choice, Statements Tagged With: Accused, defence brigades, Hafiz al-Asad, perpetrators, Rif'at al-Asad, tadmur massacre 1980

Perpetrators of Tadmur Massacre Confess on Jordanian TV

27-June-2014 By admin2

These are the videos of the confessions of some of the perpetrators of the Tadmur Massacre on Jordanian TV, after they were arrested on charges of attempted assassination of the previous Jordanian Prime Minister Madr Badran. (Note: The videos have English subtitles)  

Filed Under: Editors choice Tagged With: jordan, Rif'at al-Asad, tadmur massacre 1980

The Hama Massacre marks its Thirty-Second Anniversary

2-February-2014 By admin2

Today marks the thirty-second anniversary of the Hama Massacre, which began on 2/2/1982 and lasted for 27 days, and in which approximately 30,000 were killed in addition to 15,000 that disappeared and have not been found since. Approximately 100,000 residents left the city after a third of the districts were completely destroyed, and other districts […]

Filed Under: Editors choice, Statements Tagged With: crimes against humanity, Hafiz al-Asad, Hama Massacre 1982, massacre, Rif'at al-Asad

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