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Inside the Alaa M. Trial #24: Sophistry

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Higher Regional Court – Frankfurt, Germany Trial Monitoring Summary #24 Hearing Dates: October 18 & 20, 2022 CAUTION: Some testimony includes descriptions of torture. Note that this summary is not a verbatim

Widening the Search for the Missing Victims of ISIS: Idlib and Aleppo

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SJAC has recently expanded the geographic scope of its missing persons program to include formerly ISIS-controlled areas of Idlib and Aleppo governorates. Although SJAC has previously documented cases of forced

Inside the Alaa M. Trial #23: The feeling of losing everything

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Higher Regional Court – Frankfurt, Germany Trial Monitoring Summary #23 Hearing Dates: October 10, 11 & 13, 2022 SJAC’s 23rd trial monitoring report details days 35, 36 & 37 of the trial

Inside SJAC’s Open-Source Investigative Team

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Over the past ten years, SJAC has used its open-source database software ‘Bayanat’ [https://bayanat.org/] to compile nearly two million videos, interviews, and documents related to the Syrian conflict.

Germany and the Netherlands Must Improve Psychosocial Support for Survivors in Criminal Trials

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The Koblenz Trial – the first major trial against a Syrian government affiliate – took place in Germany from 2020 until 2022. Throughout the proceedings, witnesses and survivors talked in detail about

Understanding the Search for the Missing in Formerly ISIS Controlled Syria

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Over the last five years, since ISIS started to lose territorial control within Syria, families and local authorities have been searching for those who went missing during ISIS’s rule.

PRESS RELEASE: New report reveals systematic disposal and destruction of human remains by the Syrian government

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Monday, Oct 31st, 2022- Washington, D.C. “The Syrian Military Intelligence and the Syrian Army’s 9th Division burned the corpses of civilians, defectors, opposition members, and other non-combatants they

Inside the Alaa M. Trial #22: Nothing goes as planned

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Higher Regional Court – Frankfurt, Germany Trial Monitoring Summary #22 Hearing Dates: September 27 & 29, 2022 SJAC’s 22nd trial monitoring report details days 33 & 34 of the trial of Alaa

Life After ISIS: Prospects for Reconciliation in Formerly ISIS-Controlled Syria

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Three years after the territorial defeat of ISIS, areas of northern Syria formerly controlled by the group are still struggling to grapple with its legacy. Entire families remain detained without