12 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 ...

March 24, 2022 - Bashar Al-Assad is guilty of war crimes. To ignore these crimes is to call into question the possibility of a lasting peace. This is why France opposes efforts at normalisation. Syria’s reintegration into the Arab League will not put an end to external interference or to regional instability.

December 20, 2024 - Between 2011 and 2024, extensive violations on a vast scale by the former Bashar Assad’s regime and its allies, led to the internal displacement of approximately 6.8 million Syrians, with another seven million Syrian refugees seeking asylum abroad, according to the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).

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.

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 ...

May 10, 2026 - 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).

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 ...

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.

May 27, 2026 - They were jailed for 45 days, and ... This was Najib’s second court appearance. The judge read out 10 charges, including murder and torture. Bashar and his brother Maher al-Assad were charged in absentia....

June 15, 2026 - He was convicted of 19 counts of crimes against humanity involving eight victims · Did our AI summary help? Let us know. ... A Dutch court Monday sentenced a Syrian man to 26 years in jail for the torture and rape of opponents of former president ...

1 week ago - At least two high-profile figures ... issued an arrest warrant for former president Bashar al-Assad on charges of murder and torture....

December 4, 2025 - Similar evidence has been important in other cases, including when the U.S. Justice Department unsealed indictments against Jamil Hassan and Abdul Salam Mahmoud, two former high-ranking Syrian officials, charging them under the War Crimes Act with conspiracy to commit cruel and inhuman treatment of civilian detainees, including U.S. citizens. French courts, too, have issued thirteen arrest warrants against former Syrian officials, including for Bashar al-Assad himself, which remain outstanding, for complicity in war crimes and crimes against humanity.

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.

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 treatment of civilian detainees, including U.S. citizens, during the course of the Syrian

2 weeks ago - The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said it is the first time charges of murder as crimes against humanity under the International Criminal Court Act 2001 have been brought. It is thought to be the first time someone alleged to have been part of ex-President Bashar al-Assad's security forces has been prosecuted in the UK for crimes relating to the Syrian civil war. A trial on whether Salem did the acts he is accused of will take place in 2027, although the defendant will not take part in the proceedings. At an earlier hearing, prosecutor Emilie Pottle said: "He was tasked with quelling civilian protests against the regime and the defendant ordered officers under his command to shoot protesters and he himself shot protesters. "As a result some individuals died and the defendant is charged with their murder as a crime against humanity." ... Salem Michel Al-Salem, accused of crimes ...

2 days ago - Throughout the armed conflict, the Assad government systematically perpetrated extermination, murder, arbitrary detention, enforced disappearance, torture and ill-treatment and sexual violence, amounting to war crimes and crimes against humanity, ...

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).

Ambassador Stephen Rapp has noted that evidence of Assad's war crimes far exceeds the evidence presented against Nazi leaders at Nuremberg. I personally have seen internal Assad regime documents collected by the Commission for International Justice and Accountability that show Bashar Al-Assad's direct ordering of war crimes by his regime.

1 week ago - Among bashar al-assad’s many crimes as Syria’s dictator was turning his country into a narco-state. Captagon, an amphetamine, became Syria’s largest export. Mr Assad’s neighbours resented his role as drug-pusher-in-chief.

December 10, 2024 - For nearly 14 years the Syrian people have suffered unimaginable horrors as the government, led by President Bashar al-Assad, perpetrated crimes against humanity and war crimes, brazenly violating countless international norms and treaties. For millions of Syrians the overthrow of the Assad ...