2024

‘They’re gone’: Victims’ families in Syria demand truth, justice, closure

SNHR said the regime was responsible for the vast majority of casualties as it barrel-bombed bakeries, markets and hospitals, starved cities into submission, carried out extrajudicial killings and detained...

Over 112,000 Syrians forcibly disappeared by Assad regime most likely dead: rights group

At least 112,414 individuals who were forcibly disappeared by the Assad regime are most likely dead, according to the Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR). The rights group says that...

Over 112,000 missing Syrians probably killed in Assad regime detention centers, says rights group

More than 112,000 Syrians forcibly disappeared under the Baath regime remain unaccounted for, with evidence suggesting many were killed in detention, the Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) reported. The...

Syria’s National Commission for the Missing Confirms Deaths of Rania al-Abbasi’s Children

On 23 January 2025, the Syrian Network for Human Rights documented the enforced disappearance...

The Syrian Network for Human Rights: Legal and Procedural Loopholes in the Case of Atef Najib

The Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) released an analytical legal report in May...

Families of disappeared Syrian prisoners ‘going through bureaucratic hell’ to obtain death certificates

Last year, the Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) said that 45,342 people had died...

Syria’s Economy Ministry Cuts Bread Bundle Weight, Keeps Price Fixed

The Syrian Network for Human Rights documented at least 174 attacks on bakeries from March 2011...

Syrian refugees in Turkey ‘suffocating’ under stifling restrictions and ‘voluntary returns’ policy

The Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) released a report on World Refugee Day noting it had documented at least 4,714 cases where Syrian...

Syria’s regime seizes property of over 800 civilians in Damascus this year: Rights group

In a sweeping crackdown, the Syrian regime under Bashar al-Assad has seized the property of over 800 civilians in the Zakya district of Damascus...

Remembering Syria’s Tadmur Prison Massacre, 44 years on

Since 2011, the Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) estimates that at least 15,383 people, including 199 children, were tortured to death in Syria’s...

Over 4,700 returning Syrian refugees detained by Assad regime: SNHR

The Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) has said that 4,714 Syrian refugees who have returned to their country since 2014 have been detained...