6 hours 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 ...

3 weeks ago - The SOHR attributed 140,000 civilian deaths to the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and its allies, including Russia; 7,900 to Syrian rebels and allied forces; 4,900 to Islamic State (IS) organization; 2,670 to the U.S.-led coalition; and 1,000 to Turkey.

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

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.

2 weeks ago - Members of Syria's interim government ... war crimes during sectarian violence in March that killed around 1,400 people, mainly civilians, a UN report says. The UN Syria Commission of Inquiry said it had found no evidence the authorities in Damascus had ordered the attacks. The violence along the coast, the heartland of the Alawite sect of Islam, exposed divisions after Islamist-led rebels ousted ex-President Bashar al-Assad in ...

July 28, 2025 - France’s highest court has cancelled an arrest warrant for the former Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad for complicity in war crimes and crimes against humanity during the country’s civil war.

December 9, 2024 - Under the rule of Bashar al-Assad, ... human suffering on a vast scale. This included attacks with chemical weapons, barrel bombs, and other war crimes, as well as murder, torture, enforced disappearance and extermination that amount to crimes against humanity....

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 ...

December 20, 2024 - Foremost was his repeated usage of chemical weapons against civilian populations.2 Investigations led by the UN and the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons found over 300 instances of such attacks by pro-regime forces, with a single sarin attack in 2013 alone killing over 1400 ...

February 6, 2025 - 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 ...

December 30, 2024 - One can only rejoice in the demise of the regime of Bashar al-Assad. Much is uncertain about Syria’s future, but there is no question that the 24 years of Assad’s rule, preceded by 30 years under his comparably brutal father, Hafez al-Assad, have been utter hell for the Syrian people. No crime ...

For more than eleven years there ... as Bashar al-Assad and his Syrian regime have committed the worst atrocities of the twenty-first century, but mounting documentary evidence of Assad’s deliberate policy of mass murder and torture may change that. Recent European prosecutions have brought to light specific war crimes ...

For example, on 17 January, the ... of complicity in crimes against humanity and financing of terrorism against the French cement company Lafarge. On 11 March the Office of the Attorney General of Switzerland referred Rifaat al-Assad, uncle of Bashar al-Assad and a former ...

December 10, 2024 - The Syria of the Assad dynasty, whose half-century reign came to an end on Sunday, December 8, is a history of massacres and torture on an industrial scale, documented with the icy precision of the Nazi system. "The Syrian state itself has documented almost all its acts of torture, abuse and executions in its own archives," said Peter Bouckaert, director of the NGO Fortify Rights. "Syria was a bureaucratic killing machine under Bashar ...

Despite all these examples of brutality, the US didn't intervene. So why is it stepping in now?

Bashar al-Assad, and had harsh comments on both Donald Trump and Elon Musk ... For the foreseeable future, international courts provide the only realistic prospect of justice for Syrians · Exclusive: Mark Bridges of Farrer & Co was trustee for Rifaat al-Assad, later charged with war crimes in ...

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Geneva – Two mass graves filled ... Bashar Al-Assad's regime have been found according to a press investigation. The international community should activate pressure and legitimate accountability techniqes to hold Al-Assad's regime accountable for its brutal human rights violations, Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor said in a statement. The discovery revealed by an investigation published by The New York Times is yet one among many pieces of evidence of crimes committed ...

December 27, 2024 - Swiss federal prosecutors in March indicted Rifaat on charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity for allegedly ordering murder and torture more than four decades ago. Rifaat Assad, the brother of Bashar Assad’s father Hafez Assad, Syria’s former ruler, led the artillery unit that ...