In mid-2022, the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) of the United States Department of the Treasury issued a general license that allowed economic activities in the non-regime held areas…
In this report, Syrians for Truth and Justice (STJ) presents an update on the Syrian mercenary activities in the context of the Ukrainian conflict, revealing new information obtained in December…
On 7 November 2022, the First Instance Criminal Court in Damascus issued an appealable verdict in the viral case of Ayat al-Rifa’i—a young Syrian woman murdered by her husband, father,…
This submission is a response to the Special Rapporteur’s Questionnaire on “the duty to investigate crimes of torture in national law and practice”. In this submission, Syrians for Truth and…
On 01 November 2022, the Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, Alice Jill Edwards, published a Call for Submission to inform her report “The…
This submission by Syrians for Truth and Justice (STJ) is to inform the Special Rapporteur’s (SR) visit to the Syrian Arab Republic (Syria) as additional material for the preparation of…
On 14 November 2022, the Internal Security Forces (Asayish), an agency of the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, prevented the Kurdish National Council (KNC) in Syria, an affiliate…
Since the beginning of this year, factions affiliated to the Turkish-backed Syrian National Army (SNA) have recruited at least 40 children and subjected them to military training alongside new adult…
In November and October 2022, the Algerian authorities deported dozens of Syrian asylum seekers to a desert area on the border with Niger. The authorities are using this measure against…