Executive Summary Several factions within the opposition’s Syrian National Army (SNA) have been building one of the largest human settlements in Afrin region. The settlement is warranted by the Turkish …
Afrin
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Investigative Reports
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Investigative Reports
Syria/Turkey: Turkish Border Guards Escalate Violence Against Syrian Asylum Seekers
Executive Summary In the present report, Syrians for Truth and Justice (STJ) will address the abuses meted out to Syrian asylum seekers by the Turkish border guards (Gendarmerie). The report …
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Human Rights JournalismEditor’s Picks
Afrin: A Kuwaiti Funded School Built on the Ruins of the Yazidi Cultural Union
On 29 June 2020, Afrin’s local council, operating under the Syrian Interim Government, announced it was laying the foundation stones for a new school on the ruins of the Yazidi …
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On 25 February 2022, local activists posted several photos on social media of a dead body displaying brutal marks of torture. Field researchers with Syrians for Truth and Justice (STJ) …
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Investigative ReportsEditor’s Picks
Northeast Syria: More than 120 People Disappeared Following Operation Peace Spring
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 …
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Facts TrackerEditor’s Picks
Housing Images Falsely Circulated to be of Illegal Construction in Syria’s Afrin
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 …
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Throughout 2021, Syrians for Truth and Justice (STJ) has documented arbitrary arrests every month across all seven districts in the Afrin region of Syria, which is currently occupied and controlled …
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Human Rights Journalism
123 Arrested in “Olive Branch” and “Peace Spring” Strips in October and November 2021
Syrians for Truth and Justice (STJ) documented the arrests of at least 123 people over October and November 2021 from various areas in the “Peace Spring” and “Olive Branch” strips, …
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Press releases & statements
A Complaint to Three UN Special Rapporteurs Addressing the Destruction of Graves and Cemeteries by Various Parties to the Syrian Conflict
Over the last few years, parties in the Syrian conflict vandalized and destroyed several cemeteries, historic sites, and religious objects. In some cases, actors carried out the violence for revenge. …