August 11, 2026 - The court said Bashar al-Assad had been sentenced to death for crimes of “premeditated and intentional murder of more than one person and of children” as well as “torture, arbitrary arrest and crimes against humanity”.

1 day ago - The Federal Bureau of Investigation ... potentially leaving Assad open to prosecution by individual European countries for war crimes. UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay stated in December 2013 that UN investigations directly implicated Bashar al-Assad in perpetrating ...

August 20, 2025 - HomeStatementsSummary of the Assad Regime’s Crimes Against the Syrian People Over the... ... The Hague – the Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) released a statement briefly summarizing the staggering human and material losses inflicted by Bashar Assad’s regime on the Syrian society and the Syrian state in the last 14 years.

2 weeks 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).

1 day ago - Syrian general accused of atrocities is protected by U.S. and Lebanon, NPR and BBC find A former Syrian general wanted for crimes against humanity is living quietly in Lebanon, bankrolled and protected by American and Lebanese authorities, a BBC/NPR investigation has found. ... Bassam al-Hassan was a former Syrian general and a senior advisor to former President Bashar al-Assad. He is living in Lebanon, bankrolled and protected by American and Lebanese authorities. BBC hide caption toggle caption i BBC · NPR partnered with BBC Radio 4 to follow reporter Josh Baker and Sara Obeidat as they traveled through a changing country to attempt to uncover the truth about what happened to American journalist Austin Tice. Listen to the podcast in the NPR app. ... U.S. sanctions and wanted internationally for · crimes against humanity is living quietly in Lebanon, bankrolled and protected ...

The Assad government is responsible for systematic torture in Syria. ECCHR and torture survivors submitted the first criminal complaint in Germany.

August 11, 2026 - A Syrian court has sentenced ousted dictator Bashar al-Assad to death in absentia, after convicting him of committing war crimes and crimes against humanity during the country's civil war.

August 11, 2026 - A Syrian court sentenced ousted Syrian president Bashar al-Assad along with his younger brother to death in absentia today for crimes against humanity and war crimes during Syria's 14-year conflict

For nearly 14 years, the Syrian regime committed crimes against humanity and war crimes, killing hundreds of thousands, displacing millions, and detaining an estimated 100,000 people.

August 11, 2026 - At a court in Damascus, Judge Fakhr al-Din al-Aryan convicted Assad for crimes including "premeditated murder, the intentional killing of more than one person, the intentional killing of children under 15 years ...

December 20, 2024 - During the multi-sided conflict, Assad's regime notoriously deployed strategies in contravention of medical ethics and international humanitarian law.

December 9, 2024 - Amnesty International’s 2017 report “Human Slaughterhouse” revealed how Syrian authorities under President Bashar al-Assad had carried out killings, torture, enforced disappearance, mass hangings and extermination of detainees – in the ...

August 11, 2026 - A Syrian court has sentenced ex-president Bashar al-Assad and his younger brother to death in absentia for crimes against humanity and war crimes, which left around half a million people dead

December 13, 2024 - Torture, executions, chemical attacks on civilians, ethnic cleansing, bombing of residential areas, using famine as a weapon of war... The litany of war crimes and crimes against humanity committed by Bashar al-Assad's regime appers to be endless.

August 11, 2026 - A Syrian court sentenced ousted Syrian President Bashar Assad along with his younger brother to death in absentia on Tuesday for crimes against humanity and war crimes during Syria's 14-year conflict that left about half a million people dead.

December 15, 2024 - Not only is he suspected of using poison gas on his own citizens, but under his rule more than 15,000 people have been tortured to death since the civil war began in 2011, according to the Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR).