Articles for Syria

Syria: Free Peaceful Activists, Journalists, Aid Workers in Amnesty

Give Independent Monitors Access to Detention Facilities

 President Bashar al-Assad should release all peaceful activists, media professionals, and humanitarian assistance providers as part of an amnesty announced on October 23, 2012, Human Rights Watch, Alkarama, the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Network, the Gulf Centre for Human Rights, Index on Censorship, the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), Reporters Without Borders, and Samir Kassir Foundation – Skeyes Center for Media and Cultural Freedom said today.

25 Oct 2012
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Syria: Student Rama Al Assas disappeared since last 27 August

Rama Al Assas, Syria26-year-old Syrian student Rama Al Assas was abducted on 27 August 2012 from her home in Damascus. Since then, her whereabouts remain unknown as the Syrian authorities refuse to give any information on her fate. Alkarama is concerned about her physical and mental integrity as torture and ill-treatment is highly likely as long as she remains disappeared.

17 Oct 2012
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Syria: Torture and risk of extrajudicial killing of Ms Fatima Saad

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While media outlets show the cities of Syria in the throes of civil war, the practice of arbitrary arrests and subsequent disappearances of civilians by the Syrian security services and government aff
27 Jul 2012
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Syria: Death under torture of Syrian social media activist Aladdin Al Doori

Aladdin Al Doori, a Syrian social media activist, was shot and arrested by soldiers at a military barrier close to Bab Al Taqa near Qalaat Al Madiq on 14 April 2012. His family was not provided with any information about his state of health or his whereabouts for the two days following his arrest.
05 Jun 2012
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Lebanon/Syria: Imminent expulsion from Lebanon of Syrian refugee Youssef Al Ghantawi

Update: Youssef Al-Ghantawi was released on 12 June by the General Security services and given 48 hours to leave Lebanon.
 
On 6 May 2012, Youssef Al Ghantawi, a Syrian national was arrested at his home in Meshary Al Qaa, Lebanon. The 21-year-old was then transferred to the General Security's retention centre in Adlieh district, Beirut.
05 Jun 2012
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Syria: Committee against Torture speaks of "widespread and systematic practices of torture"

On 1 June 2012, the Committee against Torture published the concluding observations of its special review of Syria held two weeks before, on 16 May 2012. Most notably, the Committee "requests that the Syrian Arab Republic submit a special follow-up report to the Committee" on the measures taken to implement the recommendations resulting from the special review by 31 August 2012.
05 Jun 2012
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Syria: Human Rights Council holds fourth Special Session on "the deteriorating situation of human rights in the Syrian Arab Republic"

On 1 June 2012, the Human Rights Council held a Special Session to discuss the further deteriorating situation in Syria [1]. A particular focus was the events in Al Houla, north-west of Homs, which, according to preliminary investigations, resulted in the killing of at least 108 persons, including 49 children, on 25 and 26 May 2012.
05 Jun 2012
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Lebanon/Syria: Implemented or imminent expulsion from Lebanon of seven men to Syria

Alkarama is deeply concerned about the situation of seven Syrian nationals who had served sentences in Lebanese prisons and of whom three were already expelled to Syria following the expiry of their prison terms. These three men are now believed to be held by the Syrian Military Intelligence in its Palestine detention centre, a detention centre known for systematic torture and ill-treatment of inmates as well as exceptionally inhumane detention conditions.
29 May 2012
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Lebanon/Syria: Implemented or imminent expulsion from Lebanon of seven men to Syria

Alkarama is deeply concerned about the situation of seven Syrian nationals who had served sentences in Lebanese prisons and of whom three were already expelled to Syria following the expiry of their prison terms. These three men are now believed to be held by the Syrian Military Intelligence in its Palestine detention centre, a detention centre known for systematic torture and ill-treatment of inmates as well as exceptionally inhumane detention conditions.
29 May 2012
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Syria: special review by UN Committee against Torture to take place this week

For the first time since 1997, the Committee against Torture will review a State outside of its normal reporting obligations, with Syria scheduled to be reviewed by the UN Committee against Torture this week. Syria was last examined two years ago in 2010 and would under normal circumstances have been again reviewed in 2014, according to the four-year periodicity of the review process.
14 May 2012
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