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 […]
The Bombing of Tadmur Prison: Targeting the site of Violations
Days following its publishing of images claimed to be from Tadmur Prison, ISIS published images today of its bombing of the same prison. The images showed armed men planting explosives in the prison, before bombing it. The bombing operation was recorded from a number of cameras surrounding the prison. ISIS did not give any reason […]
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 […]
SHRC Calls for the termination of Law 49/1980
On the 29th Anniversary of the Law of Collective KillingSHRC Calls for the termination of Law 49/1980 The Syrian Human Rights Committee (SHRC) has called for the termination of Law 49/1980- which sentences members of the Muslim Brotherhood to death- and to settle all associated files, which have targeted a large section of the Syrian […]
Activist and Ex-detainee Faris Murad Dies
The Syrian political activist Faris Murad has passed away after six decades of endurance and suffering. He spent half his life in prison simply because he shared the same views as that of the Syrian regime on building a united arab society and on the priority of the Palestinian issue. However, these ideas of his […]
Sednaya Prison Massacre
The Syrian Human Rights Committee has learned from a source inside Sednaya Prison that members of the military police changed the locks on all the prison cells on the night of the 4th of July 2008. The following morning, an additional back – up force arrived at the prison. A search of the prison quarters […]
Ex-detainee Abdul Sattar Qattan passed away
The Syrian Human Rights Committee (SHRC) has learnt from an informed source in Aleppo this morning of the death of the ex-detainee Abdul Sattar Qattan (68 years) whilst washing his kidneys in hospital. Abdul Sattar Qattan had spent three terms of prison over more than 20 years due to his opinions and creed, and was […]
Sednaya Massacre … The Horrific Truth
The official spokesman for the Syrian Human Rights Committee said today:” the massacre of Sednaya prison is an undisputable truth, and because the Syrian authorities were unable to deny it, they resorted in their official statement –which was no longer than three lines- to distort the facts with invalid allegations. They do not dare to […]
New Details Emerge on Sednaya Massacre
The Syrian Human Rights Committee (SHRC) has received a call from a live witness at Sednaya Prison, who informed the committee that regiments of the military police had entered the prison yesterday night, 4/7/2008, and had set about replacing the locks of all prison cells with larger ones that would be more difficult to break […]
New Massacre in Sednaya Military Prison
The Syrian Human Rights Committee (SHRC) has learnt from numerous sources in the Syrian capital, that detainees in Sednaya Military Prison, west Damascus, are being subjected to a massacre in which dozens have been killed and injured. Although the prison and intelligence authorities have taken measures to keep this matter discreet, the sources have confirmed […]
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