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29/05/2018

Torture in Syria: The path to justice leads...

16 torture survivors from Syria file criminal complaint in Austria against senior officials in Assad government   Vienna/Berlin, 29 May 2017 – They survived torture and detention in Syria and...

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10/12/2017

A Long Way to Go*… Post-Revolution and Post-War...

Today, 9 December 2017, marks four years since the forced disappearance of Razan Zaitouneh, Wael Hamada, Samira Khalil and Nazem Hamadi. After four years, their memories have been and will...

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25/10/2017

Joint Urgent Alert: Serious concerns over the lives...

Hundreds of arbitrarily detained persons engage in a hunger strike to demand their release 520 persons arbitrarily detained in Homs Central Prison began a hunger strike on Tuesday, 17 October...

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06/09/2017

SCM in partnership with UNESCO launches The Observatory...

[06 September, 2017] – Stemming from their belief in the constructive role of media and freedom of speech in peace building and standing against violence and extremism, Syrian Center for Media...

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30/08/2017

On the occasion of the International Day of...

[30 August 2017] – In a letter addressed and delivered today to the High Commissioner for Human Rights, Zeid bin Ra’ad Al-Hussein, local civil society and human rights organizations called for...

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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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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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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...

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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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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...