Arbitrary Detention

Hama's Military Security Branch launched waves of arrests against civilians recently on malicious accusations or pretexts like ‘having links with terrorists’ inside the rebel-held areas in Idlib province, and many …

On the 9th and 10th of January, 2019, the Syrian authorities released seven of the Hama Central Prison inmates, after a “Special Joint Committee” examined their files and cases, left …

A Syrian security agency arrested three young men from the city of Hama while heading back to the city after their “status was regularized” through the intermediary of a “reconciliation …

On January 3, 2019, a newborn died in Al-Rukban camp, at the Syrian-Jordanian borders[1], of neonatal jaundice after the UNICEF medical point[2] known as ‘Aoun Point’ refused to treat her, …

In December 2018, Syrian security services conducted several raid and arrest operations in the city of Douma in Eastern Ghouta, rural Damascus, during which they arrested two civilians at least …

On December 11, 2018, Hay'at Tahrir Al-Sham/ HTS stormed the building of the Free Hama Health Directorte of the Syrian Interim Government, located in Kafr Nabl, southern Idlib, and arrested …

Hay'at Tahrir Al-Sham arrested Ali Haj Dibo the head of the local council in Tal Hadya town in Aleppo countryside on December 1, 2018, and released him after eight days …

Introduction Taking over vast areas of province[1], the so-called Islamic State[2] aka ISIL started imposing harsh laws and issuing arbitrary sentences against civilians including summary executions, whipping, and stoning to death …

In the duration between July and November 2018, the Syrian security services conducted no less than 160 arbitrary detentions of civilians and defectors from the Syrian regular forces throughout the …