Enforced Disappearances

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…

Today, 9 December 2017, marks four years since the forced disappearance of Razan Zaitouneh, Wael Hamada, Samira Khalil and Nazem Hamadi. After four years, their memories have been and will…

Preface: Kidnapping civilians is one of the most dangerous violations spread in the Syrian southern provinces. It has impact on the social interactions among locals of those provinces, particularly in the…

On 11 November 2017, several Syrian civil organizations published a joint statement in which they strongly condemned the kidnapping of the teacher Mohammad Mustafa, Director of the Free Education Directorate…

To whom it may concern, We, the undersigned, representatives of Syrian civil society organizations, express our deep shock and outrage at the abduction of the respected teacher and educator Mr. Mohammad…

Introduction: The first round of the Astana negotiations sponsored by Russia, Iran and Turkey was held in the Kazakh capital on January 24, 2017. The talks revolved around the establishment…

Preface: It was only hours after the detainee Ali Bassam Arafat was released from the Syrian Security Services Detention Facilities, to be arrested again on a Syrian regular forces checkpoint…

Preface: On July 15, 2017, large areas of Idlib province and its countryside witnessed clashes and military confrontations between Ahrar al-Sham al-Islamiyya[1] on one hand and Hayat Tahrir al-Sham/HTS[2] on the…