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Justice and Rule of law

04/04/2020

The Legal Dimensions of the Syrian Government Measures...

The Syrian Center for Media and Freedom of Expression (SCM) would like to share with you a report prepared by the Violations Documentation Center (VDC) titled  “The Legal Dimensions of...

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SCM

23/03/2020

Serious Concern About Health Conditions in Detention Centers

The conditions of incarceration in the detention facilities of the Syrian government pose a great danger to the lives of the detainees, who number approximately 90212. This number has been...

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SCM

22/03/2020

Assad Issues a New Pardon Decree, That Keeps...

This morning Bashar Al-Assad issued a legislative decree bearing number 6 for the year 2020. Although the authority to issue a general amnesty is vested in the Syrian Parliament in...

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SCM

11/12/2019

Syrian torture survivors file a criminal complaint in...

Oslo, 12 November 2019 – Trials and investigations in Europe can pave the way to end impunity for grave crimes committed by the Syrian government. Five torture survivors filed criminal...

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SCM

12/09/2019

joint statement on the fate of the Missing,...

Six years ago, the joint office of the VDC, LDSPS and Rising for Freedom in Douma in Eastern Ghouta (north of Damascus) was raided by armed men who abducted four...

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SCM

27/06/2019

50 civil organizations, including the SCM, call for...

While the tragedy of hundreds of thousands of families who keep looking for any information about their missing loved ones during the ongoing conflict in Syria is still going on,...

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Justice and Rule of law

25/03/2019

International, Impartial and Independent Mechanism

Introduction from the Syrian Center for Media and Freedom of Expression and the Syrian Legal Development Programme to the Syrian civil society organizations convened in Lausanne 4 meeting and represented...

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Media and Freedoms

15/03/2019

SCM launches a study on hate speech and...

Syrian Center for Media and Freedom of Expression – SCM launched the “Observatory of Hate Speech and Incitement to Violence in Syrian Media“, in partnership with the UNESCO in the...

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SCM

09/12/2018

We remember Razan, Samira, Nazem and Wa’el five...

On 09 December, people around the world remember Razan Zaitouneh, Samira Khalil, Nazem Hamadi and Wa’el Hamada, kidnapped in Douma, Syria on this day five years ago. We, the undersigned human rights organisations,...

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SCM

15/11/2018

Towards Accountability and Justice to End Impunity in...

We, the undersigning organisations, welcome the French prosecutor’s decision to issue  arrest warrants against three senior Syrian security officers: first and foremost Major General Ali Mamlouk, the Director of the...