Abduction

Six years ago, the joint office of the VDC, LDSPS and Rising for Freedom in Douma in Eastern Ghouta (north of Damascus) was raided by armed men who abducted four…

Introduction Barava Khalaf Farho was 21 when she was captured with her two children in 2014 by the Islamic State (IS) in Iraq’s Sinjar (also known as Shingal). she had…

Ransom kidnappings by “unknown” persons continue to occur in Syria’ Afrin, the Kurdish-majority city which is controlled jointly by the Turkish Army and the Syrian opposition’s National Army. STJ has…

After a relative decrease, abductions for ransom are firmly back in al-Sweida province, as 21 persons kidnapped between October 1 and November 13, 2018, and only five of whom returned…

26 Bedouins, women and children, were released by Rijal al-Karama Movement[1] after they were kidnapped by it following July 25, 2018[2] attacks on As Suwayda for accusations of  being involved…

Introduction: During June and May 2018, Idlib province saw a remarkable increase of killings and abductions of civilians, as well as explosions that claimed lives of many of them. Insecurity…

Kidnappings and mutual-kidnappings among population of both provinces Daraa and as-Sweida returned to the front once again, according to STJ's researchers who reported that some of these incidents were to…

We, the undersigned civil organizations, condemn the arrest of activists Amjad al-Maleh, Hussam Mahmoud, Hassan Younis and Bakr Younis in the city of Idlib in early December 2017. We declare…

preface: On Wednesday afternoon, December 13, 2017, the nurse Gossoon Murshid, director of the Incubator Department at the Obstetric Hospital in Duma[1], was arrested while returning to her house located in…