Since the beginning of 2024, cases of assault against Kurdish minors, adolescents, and students have been repeated in Afrin. Syrians for Truth and Justice (STJ) managed to verify no less…
Turkish Occupation
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Human Rights Journalism
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Executive Summary It has been four years since Operation Peace Spring launched by Türkiye and allied Syrian opposition armed group against Ras al-Ayn/Serê Kaniyê and Tell Abyad/Girê Sipî, north-eastern Syria.…
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Investigative ReportsEditor’s Picks
Torture in the Peace Spring Strip: A Tool for Persecution and the Perpetuation of Forced Displacement
Executive Summary This report is based on 62 testimonies collected over 2022 by Syrians for Truth and Justice (STJ) from survivors of torture in the areas of Ras al-Ayn/Serê Kaniyê…
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Human Rights Journalism
Syria: 237 Persons Arrested in “Peace Spring” and “Olive Branch” Territories — in November and December 2020
In the territories of military operations code-named Peace Spring and Olive Branch, controlled chiefly by the factions of the opposition-affiliated Syrian National Army (SNA) and the Turkish military, arbitrary arrests,…
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Syrians for Truth and Justice (STJ), documented the arrest of 17 people, among them a woman, during May 2020, in four of the seven districts of the Kurdish-majority city of…
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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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Human Rights JournalismInvestigative Reports
New Evidence Supporting the National Army’s Accusations in the Murder of the Kurdish Politician Hevrin Khalaf
1. Recommendations To the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Syrian Arab Republic (CoI), the International, Impartial and Independent Mechanism to Assist in the Investigation and Prosecution of Persons…
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Commentaries & DispatchesPress releases & statements
The prospect of a peacekeeping operation in Syria
On 9 October 2019, Turkey announced the launching of its Peace Spring Operation over the territory of Northeast Syria. Since then, 175.000 persons have been displaced. At least 120 civilians…
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Human Rights JournalismInvestigative Reports
Syria: Turkish Identification Cards Obliterate Identity of Natives and Displaced populations Alike
Background On January 20, 2019, the Turkish Army, allied by the Syrian armed groups, officially announced the start of military operations[1] in the Syrian/Kurdish city of Afrin. Reports providing a…