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Syrian commission says six children imprisoned by Assad believed to be dead

The Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR), a rights group and monitor that tracked human rights violations over the course of the war, documented the forced disappearance of 3,736...

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 of around 3,700 children by the Syrian regime since March 2011, confirming that the fate...

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 examining the trial of Brigadier General Atef Najib, the former head of the Political...

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...

Syrians Recall Hama Massacre for First Time in 43 Years

The massacre, which claimed the lives of between 30,000 and 40,000 civilians, constituted a systematically and deliberately planned collective and premeditated crime perpetrated by...

After fall of Assad regime, Hama Massacre survivors break decades of silence

According to the Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR), at least 40,000 civilians were killed, either in the bombardment or executed by regime forces. At...

Outrage as Syrian community group ‘erases history’ by painting over Assad regime’s dungeons

The SNHR has repeatedly called for the protection of detention sites. In a recent statement, the organisation emphasised that entering such facilities without proper...

Syria’s forced disappearances: No relief for grieving families

Only an estimated 24,000 people on the list of the more than 136,000 missing have been released from prison, according to the Syrian Network...