Human Rights Journalism is a facts-oriented section dedicated to giving a regular update of the human rights situation in Syria to a wide public.
Background: On 22 March 2020 the Syrian Ministry of Interior of the Syrian government took a decision to completely close all the land border crossings into Lebanon. Accordingly, the Masnaa,…
Syrians for Truth and Justice/STJ documented the arrest of no less than 43 persons, including a woman, in the Syrian Kurdish-majority district of Afrin in April 2020, carried out by…
On 25 March 2020, personnel of the “Sultan Murad” Division, operating under the opposition-affiliated Syrian National Army, killed Ibrahim al-Youssef— a 30 years old man displaced from Rural Aleppo to…
1. Legal analysis A) International Humanitarian Law Water is indispensable to civilian populations. It is not only essential to drink, but also for agricultural purposes and sanitation, all the more…
Syrians for Truth and Justice/STJ documented at least 32 raids and arrests in the district of Tall Abyad, east of Raqqa Province, where only six were released, while the 26…
Introduction: Heedless of the preliminary settlement agreement signed in Southern Syria in July 2018,[1] the Syrian regular forces have on March 1, 2020, launched a violent military attack on neighborhoods…
Background: Syria was the last of its neighbors; Lebanon, Iraq, Jordan, Turkey, to officially report coronavirus (COVID-19) cases. The first case of COVID-19 in Syria was announced on March 23,…
STJ continues to document the ongoing arrests by the National Army- of the Interim Syrian Government- and its organs in Syria’s Kurdish-majority city of Afrin. In March 2020, more than…
Between January and late March 2020, the province of Idlib, controlled by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham/HTS and other Islamist armed groups, has been a stage to nine arrests at least, which…