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 week 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 ...

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).

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.

August 11, 2026 - Former Syrian president Bashar al Assad has been sentenced to death in absentia for crimes against humanity and war crimes, following a ruling by a court in the country.

August 11, 2026 - As reported by The Hindu, the court found Bashar al-Assad guilty of premeditated and intentional murder, torture, arbitrary arrest, and crimes against humanity. The trial was conducted in absentia for Assad, who fled Damascus for Moscow nearly ...

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.

At a court in Damascus, Judge Fakhr ... including “premeditated murder, the intentional killing of more than one person, the intentional killing of children under 15 years … torture, torture leading to death, and deprivation of liberty on multiple occasions – classified as ...

August 11, 2026 - DAMASCUS, Syria (TNND) — Former Syrian President Bashar Assad and his younger brother were sentenced to death in absentia by a Syrian court on Tuesday for crimes against humanity and war crimes during Syria's 14-year civil war that left around ...

Bashar Hafez al-Assad the leader of Syria has gassed his people and needs to be held accountable for his actions! The World need to bring war crimes charges against him. ... This petition has been archived because it did not meet the signature requirements.

December 20, 2024 - Physicians for Human Rights meticulously documented hundreds of attacks on medical facilities and the killing of health-care workers by various parties during the war—pro-regime forces were found to be responsible for 88% of such attacks on health-care facilities in a 2015 estimate.5,6 The same estimate found that at least 610 medical personnel had been killed, with 139 of these deaths being as a consequence of torture or execution, and 97% of these killings were attributed to government forces.6 Instead of safeguarding public health, Assad's Government weaponised it, transforming hospitals into instruments of coercion and turning medical care into a battleground resource.

August 11, 2026 - He was convicted of crimes including murder, "the intentional killing of children under 15" and "torture leading to death". "The ruling we saw today on the al-Assad brothers and their cousin, Atef Najib, marks a new chapter in Syria’s post-regime ...

The investigation report, Violations of the Law of Armed Conflict by the Syrian Armed Forces in Connection with Military Operations in Homs, October 2011-March 2012, illustrates how Bashar al-Assad and his senior regime officers micromanaged their forces’ systematic war crimes and crimes against humanity in Homs.

July 11, 2021 - Torture is one of many war crimes committed by Bashar al-Assad's regime. In 2017, we visited a bombed hospital. Thousands of medical facilities, schools and neighborhoods have been levelled by Assad and his ally, Russia.

November 28, 2023 - A French court has issued an international arrest warrant for the Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad for complicity in war crimes against humanity linked to chemical weapon attacks on civilians.

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 ...

September 8, 2026 - Reuters reported convictions for premeditated and intentional murder, torture, arbitrary arrest, and crimes against humanity, while the Associated Press also described the judgment in terms of war crimes and crimes against humanity (Reuters, ...

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

2 weeks ago - International and national courts outside Syria have begun the prosecution of Syrian civil war criminals. War crimes perpetrated by the Syrian government under Bashar Al-Assad or rebel groups include extermination, murder, rape or other forms of sexual violence, torture and imprisonment.