Arbitrary Detention

Preface: On March 16, 2018, twenty-three prisoners escaped from the Gharz prison[1] in Daraa province, which is administered by the Hawran Courthouse, also known as the Dar al-‘Adl fi Hawran[2]. Those…

Introduction: On Friday evening, April 13, 2018, security forces “Asayesh” affiliated to Autonomous Administration arrested secretary of the Kurdish Democratic Equality Party in Syria, Ne’mat Dawood, who is also a member…

Preface: Parallel with the military operations Syrian Democratic Forces /SDF/[1] commenced on November 5, 2016 in order to wrest number of cities and towns of Raqqa province from the grip of…

On December 9, 2017, a patrol affiliated to HTS (formerly al-Nusra Front) arrested two activists, originally from Madaya, in Idlib, while one of them was taking photos of one of…

Preface: The media man Mohammed al-Ghazawi has worked on documenting violations committed by the Syrian regular army against civilians since the beginning of the Syrian armed conflict in 2011 without…

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…

Preface: Salma Muhammad was detained with her 13-year-old child for more than two months in a centre that Syrian regular forces claimed it is a centre for displaced persons in the…

Preface: After a year of detention in Syrian Security Apparatus prisons, the detainee, Adel Sayed Ali, was released on August 19, 2017, but he got out with a permanent disability in…