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‘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...
2024

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...
2024

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...
2024

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...
2026

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...
2026

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...
2026

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...
2026
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Syrians celebrate release of activist Rita Al-Aqbani in Suweida

Syrians celebrated the release of civil rights activist Rita Al-Aqbani from a security prison in Damascus on Friday, The New Arab's Arabic language sister...

Activists mourn American-Syrian psychotherapist Majd Kamalmaz

The Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) condemned his killing and said the Syrian regime denied allowing anyone to visit him or a lawyer...

Czech Republic to lead ‘fact-finding’ mission to Syria to study refugee return

Last week the Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) said it had documented the arrest of 4,714 refugees who had returned to Syria. About...

Over 1,000 civilians killed in Syria in 2023

Over 1,000 civilians were killed in Syria in 2023, mostly by Syrian regime forces and allied militias, the Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR)...