Syrian Freedom

05/07/2024

05/07/2024

🚦Many areas in Idlib are under attack by Assad forces and the internet connection in northwest Syria has been cut off by Türkiye since Monday as a punishment for speaking up against racism. Join Syrians' plight and share widely.

01/07/2024

Iraqi Prime Minister started the diplomatic move following an April meeting with Erdogan in Baghdad, sources say

30/03/2024

Attacks have escalated amid continuing war in Gaza and clashes with Hezbollah across Israel-Lebanon border.

26/03/2024

Enab Baladi – Yamen Moghrabi In Switzerland, Rifaat al-Assad, the uncle of the Syrian regime’s president, is facing a new […]

25/03/2024

The “State of Justice in Syria, 2024” is the Syria Justice and Accountability Centre’s (SJAC’s) fifth annual report, focusing on human rights violations and justice efforts in Syria in 2023. This year, Syrians suffered a worsening economic collapse, a result of years of conflict and Syrian g...

17/03/2024

13 years since the Syrian revolution sparked hope in Syrians’ hearts, the pursuit of freedom, justice and peace continues – and Syrian women have been carrying a huge share of this struggle.
This beautiful illustration by Syrian artist Dima Nachawi is dedicated to every woman who lost her life, and to those who have sacrificed so much and insist on carrying the torch for a better Syria ❤️
Support Syria’s unspoken heroes. Watch and share.

17/03/2024

07/03/2024

The Assad Regime Anti-Normalization Act passed the U.S. House of Representatives on February 14, 2023, and is now being considered by the Senate, which appears likely to pass the legislation. The bill aims to extend the length and breadth of the 2019 Caeser Act, which is set to expire

13/02/2024

SJAC’s documentary on barrel bomb attacks committed by the Syrian government represents one of the most comprehensive investigations on improvised weapons used in Syria.

SJAC’s open-source investigative team identified over 350 attacks across 10,000 videos which show bombs being dropped on schools, residential areas, mosques, churches, and other civilian infrastructure with the aim to punish Syrians living in opposition-controlled areas.

0:00/1× The below interactive map displays 350 verified barrel bomb attacks perpetrated by the Syrian government These incidents formed the foundation for SJAC's documentary View a full screen version of this map here

03/02/2024

From Australia to Kosovo and beyond, individuals, government officials, and multinational corporations were tried this year in relation to crimes committed in Syria.

Even before SJAC began monitoring the daily proceedings of key Syrian trials, it has comprehensively surveyed the justice landscape to compile the most complete set of data on Universal Jurisdiction trials related to and impacting Syrian victims. Some of these trials, such as the trial of Anwar Rasl...

02/02/2024

Senior Iranian commanders to withdraw following deadly attacks in Damascus, according to Reuters report

02/02/2024

According to Belgian judicial officials, the man identified as Hossin A. is suspected of having belonged to a militia affiliated to the Syrian regime of Bashar Al-Assad, based in the country’s western city of Salamiyah.

He is accused of having helped violently suppress opposition protests and movements that swept throughout Syria in 2011, subsequently committing war crimes and crimes against humanity until 2016.

A Syrian man has been indicted and detained in Belgium over charges of committing war crimes and crimes against humanity in Syria, in the first such case within the European...

23/01/2024

Confidential sources informed Sawt Al-Asimah that a Saudi delegation has recently arrived in Damascus for the reopening of their country's embassy.

09/12/2023

"They have blamed their shrinking budgets for Syria on global donor fatigue, the COVID-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine. Meanwhile, needs have surged in the besieged Gaza Strip during the Hamas-Israel war."

The UN World Food Program said Monday it will end in January its main assistance program across war-torn Syria, where over 12 million people lack regular

29/11/2023

With less than 24 hours until begins in the UAE: demand that Bashar al-Assad and his criminal regime are uninvited.

The Syrian regime has no interest in protecting our planet. Together, let's call for accountability for crimes against humanity in Syria, not a red carpet for a brutal dictator.

Sign the petition to help protect this opportunity to unite humanity around saving our planet – before world leaders show up in the UAE – and demonstrate global outrage at this year’s climate conference being exploited to greenwash a decade of war crimes: https://act.thesyriacampaign.org/sign/uninvite-assad-from-cop

29/11/2023

Today on International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, we stand with all those who fear for their lives in Gaza and Palestinians facing ongoing human rights abuses in Syria.

In the past 12 years, more than 3,200 Palestinians have been killed and more than 2,700 Palestinians forcibly disappeared in the Syrian regime’s detention centers, according to SNHR.

This is in addition to the destruction and bombing of the Yarmouk camp in Syria, known as “the capital of the Palestinian diaspora,” where 160,000 Palestinian refugees lived before regime forces bombed and destroyed it, forcing nearly all Palestinians to leave. Today, over 800 Palestinian families have returned to live in Yarmouk.

This month, it has been reported that the Syrian military security forces arrested three Palestinian activists from the town of Yalda in the Damascus countryside and took them to their “Palestine Branch” station on the grounds of organizing a Gaza solidarity protest without obtaining a permit. The military security forces dispersed the demonstration by force.

May today be a truly International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People

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28/11/2023

Significant strikes on rebel-held towns in northwestern Syria have gone largely unnoticed as the world watches events in Israel-Palestine.

16/11/2023

Russian and Syrian regime attacks have killed 66 civilians since the start of October, and displaced 120,000 people.

15/11/2023

France has issued an international arrest warrant for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, accused of complicity in crimes against humanity over chemical attacks in 2013, a judicial source and plaintiffs…

13/11/2023

The Syrian regime’s attempts to whitewash its crimes reached a new low this weekend when Assad attended a summit on Gaza in Saudi Arabia, as if these attacks don’t mirror his own crimes against Syrians over the years.

Assad has no place at any summit about saving lives. Impunity for crimes against humanity anywhere only emboldens tyrants to continue targeting civilians.

12/11/2023

"[...] We do not wish to centre ourselves, but expose the interconnectedness of our struggles. Syrians feel deep solidarity with the Palestinian plight, one which comes from the shared experience of resistance to tyranny, a desire for freedom and self-determination, and the trauma of war. In towns and cities across the country, Syrians have taken to the streets to protest the genocide currently underway in Gaza and show solidarity with the Palestinian resistance. In Aleppo, doctors, who have faced the regime and Russia’s targeting of hospitals, have protested against Israel’s targeting of hospitals in the Gaza Strip. In Idlib, humanitarian workers, who know what it is like to pull children from the rubble, stood to show their solidarity. In Sweida, where daily protests continue against the regime, the Palestinian flag flew high. Numerous towns in northwestern Syria have taken to the streets for Palestine, despite a serious military escalation over the past month and being subjected to daily bombing including the use of white phosphorus by the regime on civilian homes. Northwestern Syria is currently facing the most intensified bombardment by the regime since 2020, wherein over 120,000 Syrians have been internally displaced in the last month alone.

In the diaspora, we have joined protests in the countries of our exile. We know the experience of displacement and dispossession – we have lived a Nakba of our own. Syrians stand with Gaza because we share the horror and pain of state violence – we mourn every Palestinian death as our own.

We are outraged, but not surprised, by the response of the ‘international community’ and its lack of meaningful action to immediately stop the massacre in Gaza. Syrians faced the same silence and betrayal when calling for a no-fly zone to cease the number of deaths, in the earlier years of the revolution. Despite campaigns, the call fell on deaf ears and we were left to fend for our own.

We Syrians, call for an immediate ceasefire and a just resolution to the Palestinian question, rooted in self-determination and the inalienable rights of the Palestinian people. We are appalled by the hasbara, Israeli narratives and ‘War on Terror’ discourse which seek to dehumanise Palestinians, de-legitimise the Palestinian resistance and justify the Israeli onslaught, and recall the way the regime, Russia and Iran use similar methods to discredit our struggle. We reject disinformation spread by propagandists, conspiracy theories and racists with which we ourselves are too familiar with. We condemn those who have stood with the Syrian struggle but fail to stand with our brothers and sisters in Palestine, and those who support the Palestinian resistance but fail to support Syria’s struggle for freedom. [...]"

We, Syrians united in the revolutionary struggle against the Assad regime and its imperialist sponsors, stand firmly and unequivocally with the Palestinian people in Gaza, the West Bank and across …

26/10/2023

Israeli strikes killed eight soldiers in southern Syria on Wednesday, later returning to bomb Aleppo airport for the fourth time in a fortnight, the defence ministry in Damascus said.

26/10/2023

Drone strikes by Turkish Armed Forces on Kurdish-held areas of northeast Syria between October 5 and 10, 2023, damaged critical infrastructure and resulted in water and electricity disruptions for millions of people.

12/10/2023

Syria has tortured tens of thousands of its people and maintains a “widespread and pervasive” system of “abhorrent treatment”, world court judges have heard at the first international case related to the civil war in the country.

Canada and the Netherlands have brought Syria before the international court of justice (ICJ), seeking urgent measures to stop the mistreatment of thousands of people still in detention.

International court of justice asked to make urgent ruling against regime for ‘abhorrent treatment’ of its people

12/10/2023

Military analysts and local sources spoke to MEE about the drone attack, which no-one has yet claimed responsibility for.

Military analysts and local sources spoke to MEE about the drone attack, which no-one has yet claimed responsibility for

07/10/2023

At the conflict’s outbreak, Syrians were left stranded in their homes without access to electricity, water, and food. Those who decided to flee Sudan faced looting, extortion, violence, and even murder. For an already vulnerable Syrian populace, the Sudan conflict poses a risk of further displacement, both internally and abroad, with many Syrians at risk of being forced to return to Syria.

Returnees are not only confronted by serious security and safety risks, but also a Syrian government with a proven track record of committing human rights abuses against Syrian returnees who fled the country.

On April 15th 2023, following years of political and economic instability, intense clashes erupted across Sudan between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF). This continuous violence displaced at least 3.3 million people. Among them were Syrian refugees and...

06/10/2023

In order to assist Syrian victims living in the United States, SJAC has produced a guide on how to pursue justice for crimes committed in Syria through the national courts of the United States. The guide, available below in Arabic and English, outlines how to submit a complaint, the investigation and trial process, and the rights of victims and witnesses.

In order to assist Syrian victims living in the United States, SJAC has produced a guide on how to pursue justice for crimes committed in Syria through the national courts of the United States. The guide, available below in Arabic and English, outlines how to submit a complaint, the investigation