Articles for Syria

In March 2015, Ammar Al Hasan, a 20-year-old student detained in Al Malikiyah prison – one of the central Kurdish prisons in north-eastern Syria – was transferred to an unknown detention centre and subsequently disappeared. The Kurdish authorities have refused to provide any information about his whereabouts, and his family was never informed of the location he was brought to.

On 17 December 2012, Ali Al Shihabi, a Palestinian writer and former worker at the United Nations Relief and Work Agency for Palestine refugees in the Near East, was arrested by the Military Intelligence near the Al Yarmouk refugee Camp where he lived, most probably for his links with Syria's Communist Labor Party as well as his political writings.

In April 2011, car painter Jassim Al Shehab disappeared after his arrest by members of the Military Intelligence Division at a checkpoint in the Homs Governorate. Since then, his family has not been able to obtain any official information on his whereabouts.

In late December 2014, Hamrein Hussein, a 15-year-old Syrian Kurdish student from Amuda, was abducted on her way to school by a patrol of the People's Protection Units (YPG) – Syrian Kurdistan's armed forces – and forcibly enrolled.

On 25 November 2015, Alkarama wrote to several United Nations Special Procedures to encourage them to request a visit to Syria in order to raise the issues of enforced disappearance, torture and arbitrary detention.

In October 2012, Fadhil Othman, a 31-year-old concierge from Qamishli – a city in north-eastern Syria on the border with Turkey – disappeared from the national hospital where he was being treated after being shot by members of the Military Security at a checkpoint.

On 25 November 2011, Alkarama and Human Rights Guardians sent a communication to the United Nations Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances (WGEID) regarding the case of 49-year-old retired policeman Khalid Zain, his 29-year-old son Mohammad Zain and another family member,

On 16 November 2015, Alkarama and Human Rights Guardians sent a communication to the UN Working Group on Enforced Disappearances (WGEID) regarding the case of 47-year-old Mohamad Hallak, who disappeared after his arrest by members of the Syrian Military Security Branch at a checkpoint close to

On 12 November 2015, Alkarama and Human Rights Guardians sent a communication to the United Nations Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances (WGEID) regarding the case of 34-year-old medication distributor Mansour Mansour, who disappeared after arrest by members of the Syrian Arm

On 29 October 2015 Alkarama and Human Rights Guardians sent a communication to the United Nations Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances (WGEID) regarding the case of Ahmad Shamma, a 33-year-old self-employed professional who disappeared from Homs after his arrest by members of