4 days 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.

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.

3 days ago - UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay stated in December 2013 that UN investigations directly implicated Bashar al-Assad guilty of crimes against humanity and pursuing an extermination strategy developed "at the highest level of government, including the head of state."

1 month ago - Up until spring 2011, Almazhan ... dictator Bashar al-Assad, loyally carrying out orders at military police headquarters in northern Damascus. He was responsible for photographing the bodies of soldiers after they died – in accidents, for example. "That was my job,” he says. But then, he became the man who smuggled 26,342 high-definition photos of 6,679 dead bodies out of the country. A collection of images that make up the most damning evidence yet of the regime’s suspected crimes against ...

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

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 9, 2024 - Between 2011 and 2021, the Assad regime killed 306,887 civilians, including 27,126 children. The Assad regime deliberately concealed the fate and whereabouts of forcibly disappeared people, with estimates placing the number at upward of 150,000 people. Moreover, over 6.8 million people have ...

November 28, 2023 - Campaigners seeking justice for ... the subject of an arrest warrant in another country for crimes against humanity. “The French judiciary’s issuance of arrest warrants against the head of state, Bashar al-Assad, and his associates constitutes a historic judicial ...

December 9, 2024 - 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 ...

CIJA’s 478-page legal brief, ... publicy, shows how Bashar al-Assad and his top lieutenants in 2011-2012 launched a campaign to arrest, torture, and murder Syrian citizens....

4 days ago - In 2023, Canada and Netherlands ... Justice (ICJ); charging Bashar with ordering torture, mass rapes and other de-humanising tactics on hundreds of thousands of detainees in Syrian prison networks, including women and children....

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....

June 26, 2024 - France's top appeals court has ruled that an arrest warrant for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad issued for alleged complicity in crimes and humanity and war crimes is valid, lawyers say.

Bashar al-Assad, an ophthalmologist who graduated from Damascus University (Syria) and specialised at the Western Eye Hospital in London (UK), had a sudden career shift to politics and became Syria's President in 2000 following the death of his father, Hafez al-Assad.1 Despite his medical training, ...

On 15 November, French judges issued international arrest warrants for Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad, his brother Maher al-Assad and two other senior officials on charges of complicity in crimes against humanity and war crimes over the use of banned chemical weapons against civilians ...

October 19, 2020 - The court has been revealing, one ... of the Syrian government’s crimes against humanity. For the first time, it’s possible for outsiders to perceive how, under Assad’s leadership, atrocities became a routine way of life. Bashar al-Assad, the defiant president of Syria, ...

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 ...

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 ...