The ongoing conflict in Syria has forced Syrians to start thinking about legal terms they once rarely discussed. Some of these terms are related to criminal issues and crimes perpetrated …
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The Damascus-based central Syrian government continues to confiscate and expropriate large plots of agricultural lands in the countryside of Hama province, taking advantage of the absence of their original owners.[1] …
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The Syrian Government is Seizing Large Swathes of IDPs Lands in Hama and Idlib Suburbs
Executive Summary The Syrian government seized large areas of agricultural lands in the provinces of Hama and Idlib and offered these plots for rent and investment by public auctions. These …
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Human Rights Journalism
On the Anniversary of Hama’s “Children of Freedom” Massacre, Perpetrators are Still at Large
The 3rd of June 2021 marks the 10th anniversary of the massacre committed by Syrian government security forces on the Friday of the Children of Freedom in 2011 in Hama …
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Investigative Reports
Desertification Threatens the Ghab Plain after TIP Removed Irrigation Pipes Fed by the Orontes River
Executive summary After dismantling the Zayzoun power stations and selling most of its equipment, including the gas pipelines supplying it, in late 2019,[1] the Syrian branch of the Turkistan Islamic …
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Background: On 22 March 2020 the Syrian Ministry of Interior of the Syrian government took a decision to completely close all the land border crossings into Lebanon. Accordingly, the Masnaa, …
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Human Rights Journalism
Syrian Executive and Security Forces Take Advantage of COVID-19 Curfew to Oppress Civilians
Background: Syria was the last of its neighbors; Lebanon, Iraq, Jordan, Turkey, to officially report coronavirus (COVID-19) cases. The first case of COVID-19 in Syria was announced on March 23, …
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Investigative Reports
Syria: Turkistan Islamic Party Seizes and Pillages Public Property in Rural Hama
Introduction: The period from March 2019 to September 19 of the same year witnessed the Turkistan Islamic Party/TIP’s continued acts of confiscation and pillage which targeted public properties in western …
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Local media and social media activists circulated a photo; they said it belongs to an amnesiac man recently freed from one of the Syrian regime’s detention centers in Hama. However, …