Enforced Disappearances

Syrians for Truth and Justice-STJ works on documenting the abuses committed in Syria to inform and ensure, eventually, accountability for the crimes committed. 2017-2018 did not see any progress towards…

Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) intensified its security campaign and arrested several persons in Idlib city on charges of being "spies and secret agents in favor of the Syrian regime" after…

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…

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…

Preface: With the escalation of military operations in Deir ez-Zur province[1] against ISIS[2], and after Syrian Democratic Forces/SDF[3] controlled Raqqa city, and wrested it from the grip of ISIS on  October…

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: On Tuesday, December 26, 2017, the first batch of trapped patients on “evacuation lists” in Eastern Ghouta, Damascus countryside, was evacuated; it was five cases out of 29, which Syrian…

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…

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…