Background: After the Turkish army and allied factions from the opposition’s Syrian National Army (SNA) established military control over the Afrin region in northwest Syria in March 2018, the predominantly …
Diyar was fortunate enough to survive torture at the hands of Turkish intelligence forces in the opposition Syrian National Army (SNA)-run prisons located in Afrin. He, then, decided to displace …
Background: The ongoing Syrian conflict since 2011 has affected all joints of life in the country. Parties to the conflict have varied and Syria’s geography has been divided into different …
Ninety-two Syrian, Arab, and foreign figures released this statement to revive the case of the Newroz Eve murder in Jindires after 40 days of its occurrence. This statement calls on …
Introduction Since early 2022, the Turkish government has been enforcing harsher persecution and deportation measures against asylum seekers, especially Syrian refugees, arbitrarily detaining hundreds of them. Along with these measures, …
On Wednesday evening, 22 June 2022, a young man and two minors tried to access Turkey illegally. They took a smuggling route across from the Kurdish-majority town of Amuda, located …
Executive Summary On 30 March 2022, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad issued Law No. 16 of 2022, criminalizing torture. According to the Syrian Presidency’s Facebook account, the Anti-Torture law has been …
STJ cites in the present report information and detailed testimonies on cases of violent acts committed by the Turkish border guards (gendarmerie) against Syrians who tried to cross the border …
The signatory organizations are pleased to address the Special Rapporteur (SR) on violence against women, its causes, and consequences, in response to her call for inputs to inform her visit …