Crims Against Humanity

What is the case about? The criminal complaint filed by ECCHR and Syrians for Truth and justice (STJ) addresses the human rights violations that Islamist armed militias have been committing …

Berlin, January 18, 2024 – Since 2018, armed militias with the support of Turkey have been committing crimes under international law in Afrin in northern Syria. To address these crimes, …

1. Introduction On 27 January 2023, the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW)[1] published its Investigation and Identification Team[2] (IIT)’s third report No. S/2125/2023.[3] The report sets out …

On the 9th anniversary of the chemical massacre in Ghouta in the countryside of Damascus, in which more than a thousand civilians died of asphyxiation, while thousands inhaled toxic gases, …

Secretary General of the United Nations, António Guterres President of the UN Human Rights Council, Coly SECK High Commissioner of Human Rights, Michelle Bachelet Jeria Commissioners of UN Commission of …

We, the undersigning organisations, welcome the French prosecutor's decision to issue  arrest warrants against three senior Syrian security officers: first and foremost Major General Ali Mamlouk, the Director of the …

As of June 15, 2018, the Syrian regular forces and their allies continued their fiercest military campaign against cities and towns in the countryside of armed opposition-held Daraa. June 27, …

Preface: The Eastern Ghouta region witnessed one of the worst and most violent military attacks led by Syrian regular forces with the direct backing and support from the Russian military aircraft …

Preface: Several hospitals in Idlib countryside were subjected to violent attacks by Syrian regular forces and their allies, during February 2018, these attacks caused the destruction of these hospitals and put …