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Syria’s mass graves haunt loved ones a year on from Assad, as hunt for clues finally starts

It has been a whole year since Bashar al Assad, who ruled Syria with an iron grip for decades, was ousted from power. According to the Syrian Network for Human Rights at...
2025

Facing Alawite backlash, Syria’s new leaders take controversial steps to win loyalty

The Syrian Network for Human Rights says the committee’s power to grant amnesties and free detainees undermines transparency, accountability and an independent judiciary.
2025

Syrians emptied Assad’s prisons. They’re filling up again, and abuse is rife

The Syrian Network for Human Rights started documenting abuses under Assad in 2011 and has continued to release monthly reports on arbitrary detentions. Over the course of 2025, the...
2025

Syrian officials discuss demining efforts in Geneva with European partners

According to the Syrian Network for Human Rights, at least 3,799 civilians have been...
2026

SNHR: Millions of Syrians return home, but major challenges persist

More than 3 million Syrians, including refugees and internally displaced people, have returned to...
2026

Justice for Tadamon

In a legal analysis, the Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR), an NGO, questioned the...
2026

What the discovery of Assad-era chemical weapons means for Syria

According to the Syrian Network for Human Rights, the group carried out five chemical...
2026
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Young lives cut short on an unimaginable scale: the 18,457 children on Gaza’s list of war dead

The Syrian Network for Human Rights documented more than 19,000 children killed in the first four years of the conflict. Syria’s population at the start of...

Justice for Syria’s disappeared

According to the NGO Syrian Network for Human Rights, at least 181,312 individuals remain arbitrarily detained or forcibly disappeared, including 5,332 children and 9,201...

The families of Syria’s disappeared are asking for the truth. Our country cannot rebuild until we have it

Since 2011 there are more than 160,000 Syrians whose disappearance by the Assad regime has been documented by the Syrian Network for Human Rights, with 180,000...

Syria rights group calls on Russia to extradite Assad, pay compensation for role in war

A leading Syrian human rights monitor has called on Russia to extradite former president Bashar al-Assad and issue a formal apology for supporting his regime. In a statement on...