Detainees and Forcibly Disappeared Persons
Kurdish Self-Management Continues its Policies of Arbitrary Arrest and Torture
Media Activist Barazan Hussein Has to be Released and Enforced-Disappearance Policies Have to End
Self-Management forces (primarily consisting of the Democratic Union Party – a...
The Release of Roughly 107,000 Detainees Must be Included in the American-Russian South Syria Agreement
Failing to Include the Detainees Issue Will Kill any Hope for the Agreement and Geneva Talks
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After extensive talks in May 2017...
Ahrar al Sham Movement Arrests and Insults an FSA Commander, Driving him to Start a Hunger Strike
Commander “Ammar Saqqar” must be Released to Avert Popular Escalation and Resentment
On May 8, 2017, Ahrar al Sham Islamic Movement – an Islamic armed...
Self-management forces Escalate its Arbitrary Arrests and Oppression of Freedoms in its Areas
European States must Review Policies in Supporting Parties that violate Basic Human Rights
Since the beginning of August, SNHR has recorded an alarming escalation in...
Detainee Sara Al-Alaou has been Forcibly-Disappeared by Syrian Authorities in Adra Central Prison
Sara Al-Alaou was forced to confess that she practiced sexual jihad
Enforced-disappearance is still a systematic policy that the Syrian authorities enforce in a widespread...
The Power struggles in Kafr Nobul City Encourages Arbitrary Arrests
Since mid-May of this year, SNHR documented several cases of arbitrary arrests; and that of employees who work in the service area in the...
The Syrian Regime Recruits Civilians in Regions under its Control
1217 Arrests Aiming to Recruit Civilians
In November 2015, Syrian forces distributed lists that contained the names of tens of thousands of individuals for forced...
Mazin Darwish transfered from Damascus central prison to an undisclosed place
The Syrian authorities have transferred the journalist and human rights activist Mazin Darwish from Damascus central prison -Adra prison-, where he was previously being...
Release Khalil Ma’touq Immediately, Unconditionally
(Geneva October 2, 2014) – The Syrian government should immediately and unconditionally free the prominent human rights lawyer Khalil Ma’touq and his colleague Mohamed...
The Syrian regime Releases Three Women and Five Men for a Colonel
After nearly two months of negotiations between the Syrian regime, represented by the minister of justice, governor of Damascus, and “Al-Bustan Association” (An association...