20 May 2020 To: Syrians for Detainees and Abductees Syrian Democratic Council In a press release on 5 April 2020, the Syrian Democratic Council announced the formation of a…
Arrests
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Press releases & statements
Appeal for immediate intervention to prevent the summary trial of 90 Syrian detainees in Turkish prisons
UN Secretary-General: António Guterres, UN High Commissioner: Michelle Bachelet, We, signatory Syrian organizations, are making this appeal to express our concern about the fate of more than 90 Syrian detainees,[1]…
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Syrians for Truth and Justice/STJ documented at least 32 raids and arrests in the district of Tall Abyad, east of Raqqa Province, where only six were released, while the 26…
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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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Between January and late March 2020, the province of Idlib, controlled by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham/HTS and other Islamist armed groups, has been a stage to nine arrests at least, which…
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As a violation of the basic human rights, and as a further step to undermine the basic and public freedoms; the SDF intelligence agency has arrested four civilian activists in…
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The conditions of incarceration in the detention facilities of the Syrian government pose a great danger to the lives of the detainees, who number approximately 90212. This number has been…
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Tacking the arrests in the Kurdish-majority city of Afrin, Syrians for Truth and Justice/STJ managed to document no less than 73 incidents of people arrested on various charges, among them…
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Human Rights Journalism
Raqqa: Three Activists Arrested by the Autonomous Administration for Reasons yet Unknown
In three separate raids, the intelligence office in the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) of the Autonomous Administration, arrested three prominent local activists in the province of Raqqa in February 2020,…