Arbitrary Detention

Introduction On 28 May 2020, eight women at least with a newborn were found held in a military headquarters of the Hamza/Hamzat Division affiliated to the National Army, operating under…

Background On 9 October 2019, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan announced the launch of a military operation by the Turkish Army and allied Syrian opposition groups – of the National…

Syrians for Truth and Justice (STJ), documented the arrest of 17 people, among them a woman, during May 2020, in four of the seven districts of the Kurdish-majority city of…

Introduction The Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham’s (HTS) security force carried out summary executions against 10 people, including a woman, in various parts of Idlib province, for charges of adultery, cursing god,…

Organisations which support human rights, press freedom and journalists are calling on United Nations mechanisms and member states  to help save the lives of four Yemeni journalists who were sentenced…

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…

UN Secretary-General: António Guterres, UN High Commissioner: Michelle Bachelet, We, signatory Syrian organizations, are making this appeal to express our concern about the fate of more than 90 Syrian detainees,[1]…

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…

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…