Seizure of Property

Executive Summary Contrary to its name, Turkey’s Operation Peace Spring, which began 9 October 2019, only brought woes to the people of Syria’s northeast, specifically the area lying between Ras …

Eleven years ago, thousands of Syrians joined peaceful protests across the country. What began as a hopeful call for democracy has been turned into what the United Nations Independent International …

In 2011, sweeping anti-government protests empowered the Syrian people to push boundaries and begin conversations about freedom in Syria. These conversations triggered Syrians to question the various policies, laws, and …

On October 4 2021, the Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) published a news story about “New urban schemes for Alhajar Al Aswad, Sbeneh, Jaramana and Yalda” stating that Rif Dimashq …

On 31 January 2022, public and personal Facebook and Twitter accounts, mostly Kurdish, circulated alleged news on a Palestinian organization building villages for internally displaced people (IDPs) in Syria’s Kurdish-majority …

Precautionary seizure is a legal procedure whereby the judiciary freezes movable and immovable property of the depositor including, for example, money, real estate, cars, stakes or shares in companies, to …

Executive Summary Five years ago, the forces of the Syrian government (SG) launched a large-scale military operation into three key areas in Wadi Barada (Barada Valley) in the suburbs of …

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 …

After the Arab Socialist Ba’ath Party seized power in Syria in 1963, successive Ba’athist Syrian governments enforced several laws and used a wide range of practices that robbed a large …