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.
On 7 November 2022, the First Instance Criminal Court in Damascus issued an appealable verdict in the viral case of Ayat al-Rifa’i—a young Syrian woman murdered by her husband, father, …
On 14 November 2022, the Internal Security Forces (Asayish), an agency of the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, prevented the Kurdish National Council (KNC) in Syria, an affiliate …
Since the beginning of this year, factions affiliated to the Turkish-backed Syrian National Army (SNA) have recruited at least 40 children and subjected them to military training alongside new adult …
In November and October 2022, the Algerian authorities deported dozens of Syrian asylum seekers to a desert area on the border with Niger. The authorities are using this measure against …
Ninar Khalifa “Earlier this year, unidentified assailants kidnapped one of my relatives, who was a well-known food merchant, while leaving his home in Jabal al-Summaq, rural Idlib, to Idlib city. …
Since early 2022, the Turkish government has been enforcing harsher persecution and deportation measures against Syrian asylum seekers. Along with these measures, Turkish authorities engaged in a chain of refoulement …
On 14 September 2022, the residents of al-Mahatta neighborhood in Ras al-Ain/Serêkaniyê city discovered the dead body of a little boy, Yassin Ra’ad al-Mahmoud. The Iraqi boy’s body was dumped …
On 19 October 2022, members of the self-proclaimed Youth Council of the Democratic Union Party (PYD)—locally known as Meclîsa Ciwanên PYD, assaulted several offices of United Nations (UN) agencies in …
In Kobanî/Ayn al-Arab, in Aleppo’s eastern countryside, 12 Kurdish families are anxiously waiting for the bodies of their loved ones to arrive home. The victims lost their lives in two …
