Deaths under Torture

Executive Summary On 30 March 2022, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad issued Law No. 16 of 2022, criminalizing torture. According to the Syrian Presidency’s Facebook account, the Anti-Torture law has been…

Executive Summary In the present report, Syrians for Truth and Justice (STJ) will address the abuses meted out to Syrian asylum seekers by the Turkish border guards (Gendarmerie). The report…

Between January 20 and February 4, 2019, two cases of killing under torture were recorded in the prisons of the armed opposition groups, operating under the Syrian National Army[1] in…

Elements of the Syrian Air Force Intelligence Service arrested a former official of the Free Police, affiliated with the Syrian opposition, in the city of Da’el, Daraa, for his body…

Introduction None of the points contained in the ‘reconciliation deal’, signed in July 2018, were upheld in Daraa[1]. Shortly after government forces retook the province, they conducted waves of arrests among…

On August 3, 2018, STJ have published a report entitled (Different Methods Recently to Inform Detainees/Disappeared Parents of the Death of their Sons in Syrian Detention Facilities[1]), and when talking…

The civil registry directorates of the Syrian Ministry of Interior "update" the documents special to persons proved to have been arrested and detained by Syrian security apparatus and branches affiliated…

Introduction  Prolonged years of service for the Criminal Security Department in Aleppo province did not recommend from the risk of being held by Syrian security apparatus in 2011. He never…

His Excellency Mr. Antonio Guterres Secretary-General of the United Nations H.E. Mr. Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights H.E. Mr. Vojislav Šuc President of the…