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.

April 17, 2025 - Muhammad Afif Nafieh was forced to dig mass graves for authorities under Bashar al-Assad from 2011 until early 2018 when he fled with his family to Germany. He testified against Syrian officials convicted of crimes against humanity in a German court in Koblenz, and has also shared his experiences ...

5 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."

December 10, 2024 - Since 2011, Bashar al-Assad and his allies killed more than 181 journalists because of their work. On 9 December 2024, the day the regime fell into the hands of the militant group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), 23 journalists were behind bars and ten were missing, including seven victims of enforced ...

March 24, 2022 - To ignore these crimes is to call into question the possibility of a lasting peace. This is why France opposes efforts at normalisation.

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 ...

April 18, 2025 - Syria’s ousted dictator, Bashar al-Assad, unleashed a Sarin gas strike on the suburbs of Damascus in 2013, killing at least 1,500. Now, the survivors want justice. The basement of an underground medical center in eastern Ghouta, Syria, where victims of a chemical attack were taken in 2013.Credit... ... A team of reporters spent several weeks visiting the Damascus suburbs, including eastern Ghouta, interviewing survivors and chemical weapons and war crimes ...

March 14, 2024 - Living in a state of limbo is a ... the recent normalization push with the Assad regime has profoundly impacted my work and the pursuit of justice for the countless victims of the regime’s crimes. Over the past few years, Bashar ......

November 15, 2023 - This is a historic moment — with ... international crimes, even at the highest level”, says Steve Kostas, Senior Managing Lawyer at the Open Society Justice Initiative. “The French judiciary’s issuance of arrest warrants against the head of state, Bashar al-Assad, and his associates ...

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December 11, 2024 - What impact will the fall of Bashar al-Assad have on ongoing proceedings in France against former Syrian regime officials? According to the National Anti-Terrorism Prosecutor's Office (PNAT), which is also responsible for war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide, "24 proceedings concerning ...

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.

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 ...

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 9, 2024 - Under the rule of Bashar al-Assad, and before him his father Hafez al-Assad, Syrians have been subjected to a horrifying catalogue of human rights violations that caused untold human suffering on a vast scale. This included attacks with chemical weapons, barrel bombs, and other war crimes, as well ...

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 ...

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 ...

July 30, 2016 - Despite all these examples of brutality, the US didn't intervene. So why is it stepping in now?