Bashar al-Assad

14 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 ...

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 ...

2 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.

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 ...

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 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 ...

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....

December 13, 2024 - The fall of Bashar al-Assad has created a historic opportunity to gather direct evidence of the crimes committed by the Syrian regime, which investigators have been unable to do until now. After 50 years…

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....

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 ...

With more than 180 journalists ... for media professionals, according to RSF’s 2024 World Press Freedom Index. We demand that Bashar al-Assad be prosecuted for his crimes....

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 ...

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 ...

Similar evidence has been important ... 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 ...

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.

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