5 days ago - Brutal repression, human rights abuses, war crimes and crimes against humanity perpetrated by the Assad government throughout the course of the conflict led to international condemnation and widespread calls to convict Bashar al-Assad in the International Criminal Court (ICC).

The Syrian government led by president Bashar al-Assad is responsible for systematic and widespread torture targeting opponents and activists not only as a reaction to the protests in 2011. There are currently only a few avenues left to prosecute international crimes committed in Syria.

4 days ago - As in France, legal proceedings have been initiated or completed in a number of European countries against former officials of Bashar al-Assad's Syrian regime. A 36-year-old Syrian doctor, known as M. by the German media, accused of crimes against humanity, accompanied by his lawyer during ...

2 days ago - A Quran rests on a countertop with ... Bashar al-Assad" inscribed on the side. Around the corner from Bin Ali is the home of Ali Mamlouk, one of Assad's closest associates and among the most senior and notorious members of the regime. He was reportedly given the nickname "black box" because of his control over sensitive information. He was sentenced alongside Hassan by French judges this year for war crimes, and is also ...

1 week ago - The fall of Bashar al-Assad has created a historic opportunity to gather direct evidence of the crimes committed by the Syrian regime, which investigators have been unable to do until now. After 50 years…

2 weeks ago - An indictment was unsealed today in the Northern District of Illinois charging two high-ranking Syrian officials under former President Bashar al-Assad with war crimes. The indictment charges the former Syrian intelligence officials with engaging in a conspiracy to commit cruel and inhuman ...

March 24, 2022 - To ignore these crimes is to call into question the possibility of a lasting peace. This is why France opposes efforts at normalisation.

2 weeks ago - For nearly 14 years the Syrian people have suffered unimaginable horrors as the government, led by President Bashar al-Assad, perpetrated crimes against humanity and war crimes, brazenly violating countless international norms and treaties. For millions of Syrians the overthrow of the Assad ...

2 weeks ago - Under the rule of Bashar al-Assad, and before him his father Hafez al-Assad, Syrians have been subjected to a horrifying catalogue of human rights violations that caused untold human suffering on a vast scale. This included attacks with chemical weapons, barrel bombs, and other war crimes, as well ...

September 5, 2024 - The court also concluded that “insofar as it seems obvious that Syria will never prosecute Bashar al-Assad for these crimes, that it will never waive the personal immunity of its President, and insofar as no international courts have jurisdiction, Syria not being a party to the Rome Statute, ...

2 weeks ago - When he spoke to lawmakers and ... by Bashar al-Assad’s regime. The discovery of the Syrian activist’s body inside the notorious Sednaya prison on the outskirts of Damascus brought the news that he never lived to see its downfall. Hamada’s sunken eyes and haunted face, his tears as he described the depth of horrors he experienced, made him a symbol of the crimes the Assad ...

June 26, 2024 - The Paris appeals court has ruled that an international arrest warrant for Syrian President Bashar Assad issued by France for alleged complicity in war crimes during Syria’s civil war is valid and remains in place.

May 17, 2024 - The French National Anti-Terrorism Prosecutor's Office has requested that the arrest warrant, issued in November 2023, be annuled, on the grounds of absolute personal immunity for sitting heads of state.

1 week ago - Just being in Saydnaya's cells ... in the Assad regime's crimes. A group of men gathered in the prison yard, smoking silently, some leafing through files that they had picked up off the ground. All those I spoke to said that the future must be built on justice for the past. The men in the group, all looking for missing, sons, brothers and cousins, called Saydnaya a mass grave. They want the head of Bashar al-Assad, ...

2 days ago - And it’s just one of several ... Bashar al-Assad. Since 2012, Assad is suspected of torturing and killing possibly hundreds of thousands of his own citizens and foes. It’s a testament to his depravity, following in the footsteps of his father, Hafez al-Assad, who similarly slayed dissenters with abandon. “We really haven’t seen anything quite like this since the Nazis,” marvels former US war crimes ambassador ...

1 week ago - Ahmed al-Shara, the leader of the Islamist group that orchestrated the fall of President Bashar al-Assad of Syria, promised to hold the remnants of the old regime accountable for their crimes in a post on social media, and asked for international help to track them down.

November 16, 2023 - More than 1,000 people were killed with chemical weapons in two attacks in 2013. France issued war crime arrest warrants for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.