Enforced Disappearances

Dirar Mohammed Hamdo, born in 1980, from Kurd Mountains area in Latakia countryside, holds a preparatory certificate and used to be a farmer. He is married with two daughters, they …

The disappeared Amir Ahmed, also known as Amir Hamed, was born in 1977 in ad-Darbasiyah in Qamishli in al-Hasakeh province. He is married with four daughters and lived with his …

A calamity inflicted al-Hussein family and caused their lives to be turned upside down. The family lived happily and in good a material conditions until security forces affiliated to the …

Safwan Ahmed al-Katini, from Khan Sheikhoun in Idlib province, born on 24 March 1973, owned some agricultural lands and worked in investing them; he is married with one son who …

Preface: It was only one day after the detainee Yusuf Aba Zaid got out of the Syrian jails when he was killed as a result of shelling Western Ghariyah located in …

The organisations and institutions signing below are extremely saddened by the news that our friend and colleague Bassel Khartabil Safadi has been executed in the Syrian regime jails. We send …

The family of Bassel Khartabil, a Syrian-Palestinian software engineer and free speech activist, confirmed that he had been subjected to an extrajudicial execution in October 2015. The undersigned human rights …

Background 26th June of each year marks the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture.  The General Assembly, in the resolution 52/149, December 12, 1997, proclaimed an International day …

Preface: Daraa, as well as most other Syrian provinces, is full of secret and public detention facilities, where tens of thousands of persons are arbitrarily detained and/or forcibly disappeared. Let alone …