1 month ago - 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”.

17 hours ago - In August 2026, Assad was convicted of war crimes and crimes against humanity by a Syrian court and sentenced to death in absentia. Bashar Hafez al-Assad was born in Damascus on 11 September 1965, as the second son and third child of Anisa Makhlouf and Hafez al-Assad.

4 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 month ago - 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. It is the first conviction against Assad, who fled from Damascus to the Russian capital, Moscow, with his family after his regime was overthrown in December 2024, ending his family's five-decade grip on power. Assad's cousin and the former head of political security in southern Syria's Deraa province, Atef Najib, was also sentenced to death. He appeared wearing a striped prison uniform inside a cage in the courtroom as the judge read out his sentence. Deraa is widely seen as the birthplace of the uprising against Assad's rule. In March 2011, the detention and alleged torture of a group of teenagers accused of writing anti-government graffiti sparked protests in the city, which were met with a ...

1 month ago - A Syrian court sentenced ousted Syrian President Bashar al-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.

1 month ago - 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. The offences took place during Syria's 14-year conflict, which began in 2011 ...

1 month ago - The court said 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”. ... READ MORE: UN calls ...

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.

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.

1 month ago - On Tuesday, the Fourth Criminal Court in Damascus sentenced him and his brother Maher al Assad in absentia for the crimes carried out from 2011 to the end of the regime. During Syria's almost 14-year conflict, about half a million people were killed. "Bashar Assad used state agencies to commit war crimes and crimes against humanity", judge Fakhareddine al Aryan said during a court session that was aired live on state TV.

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.

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 ...

1 month ago - 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 ...

3 weeks ago - Lebanon has handed Syria a former general who served under the ousted regime of Bashar al-Assad, in the first extradition of its kind since his government fell. Maj Gen Adel Issa, 67, is accused of a raft of crimes allegedly committed during the Syrian civil war, which ended in December 2024 when rebel forces took the capital, Damascus, and Assad fled. Issa was detained on 8 August after visiting the Syrian embassy in Beirut to complete paperwork and was transferred into Syrian custody on Wednesday. The handover follows pressure from Syria's new authorities on Lebanon to act against former security and military officials who fled across the border after Assad's fall. The Syrian interior ministry said Issa led ground forces in the eastern province of Deir Ezzor until 2016. He is accused of charges including murder as well as "torture leading to death and crimes of aggression with the aim of inciting civil war and sectarian fighting", it said.

1 month ago - 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 ...

Since 2011, a community of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) has been assembling vast evidence of the Syrian state’s crimes against humanity, with the aim of supporting international investigations and prosecutions. The authors serve as pro bono advisory board members of one such major NGO, the non-profit Commission for International Justice and Accountability (CIJA). CIJA has amassed more than one million pages of internal Syrian regime records which show in exhaustive detail how Bashar al-Assad and his intelligence and security agencies have conducted—and are still conducting—a deliberate, systematic, and centrally planned campaign of mass murder and torture to keep Assad in power.

December 9, 2024 - 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.