press release
SCM

02/11/2017

SCM’s Statement on the Occasion of International Day...

Syria is considered to be the most dangerous country in the world for journalists. This is not a fallacy or uncalculated sympathy. It is rather a reflection of the general...

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SCM

21/09/2017

Strengthening UN action towards ensuring accountability for war...

September 20th, 2017 – We, the undersigned non-governmental organisations, address collectively our calls to the international community to adhere to protect civilians across Syria and take concrete action to hold all...

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SCM

03/08/2017

Bassel Khartabil Safadi… Victim of the Military Field...

The organisations and institutions signing below are extremely saddened by the news that our friend and colleague Bassel Khartabil Safadi has been executed in the Syrian regime jails. We send...

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SCM

02/08/2017

Rights groups condemn extrajudicial execution of human rights...

02-August-2017 – The family of Bassel Khartabil, a Syrian-Palestinian software engineer and free speech activist, confirmed that he had been subjected to an extrajudicial execution in October 2015. The undersigned human...

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SCM

19/07/2017

The Syrian Center for Media and Freedom of...

  The Conference of Jurists on The Use of the Military and Exceptional Courts in The MENA region. TUNIS 8-9 July 2017 The Syrian Center for Media and Freedom of...

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SCM

23/06/2017

Call of solidarity with MENA HRDs at IFEX25

We ask the authorities to stop their campaigns of repression against HRDs and civil society organisations   We, the human rights defenders in the Middle East and North Africa, and...

press release
SCM

12/12/2016

On the third Anniversary, Where are Razan, Nazem...

On December 9, 2013, a group of gunmen stormed the offices of the Violations Documentation Center in Syria in Douma, Damascus countryside and abducted Razan Zaitouneh and three other activists:...

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SCM

21/06/2016

Joint appeal to help free Syrian human rights...

On 29 April, human rights groups worldwide are marking the birthday of Syrian human rights defender Razan Zaitouneh, who will be spending it in captivity for the third time along with her...

press release
SCM

17/03/2016

Syria’s authorities should reveal the whereabouts of Bassel...

Syria’s authorities should reveal the whereabouts of Bassel Khartabil, A software developer and free speech activist, and release him immediately, 30 organizations said on the fourth anniversary of his detention...

press release
SCM

08/07/2015

No to Arbitrary Detention…. Freedom to Mazen Darwish

Human rights activist, journalist and president of the Syrian Center for Media and Freedom of Expression (SCM), Mazen Darwish, was detained on the 16 of February 2012 following a raid...