DW interviews Syria Justice and Accountability Centre (SJAC) Executive Director Mohammad Al Abdallah on the Syrian government’s recent disclosure of detainees who died in government custody. Al Abdallah explains how one reason for the decision may be to simplify reconstruction efforts, as the tens of thousands of missing people in Syria can complicate families’ attempts […]
Enab Baladi interviews Syria Justice and Accountability Centre (SJAC) Executive Director Mohammad Al Abdallah on the possibility of a US military withdrawal from Syria. Al Abdallah explains that the Trump administration is increasingly backing away from the commitment to support UN Resolution 2254, instead accepting the Russian-Syrian narrative that the conflict is coming to an […]
Enab Baladi interviews Syria Justice and Accountability Centre (SJAC) Executive Director Mohammad Al Abdallah on the role Russia has played in drafting a new constitution, and why it is attempting to shut Syrians out of the process. Read more: Enab Baladi
Enab Baladi interviews Syria Justice and Accountability Centre (SJAC) Executive Director Mohammad Al Abdallah on Syria’s complicated history with democracy, and how different areas of the country think about the possibility of a political transition. Read more: Enab Baladi
Fast Company interviews Syria Justice and Accountability Centre (SJAC) Legal and Strategy Analyst Shabnam Mojtahedi on how SJAC is attempting to preserve videos of violations in Syria before YouTube deletes them. Read more: Fast Company
In an article written in collaboration with SJAC, Enab Baladi explores how the proliferation of biased and inflammatory news sources is fueling the Syrian conflict. The partisan narratives that arise from such reporting will need to be addressed in future transitional justice and reconciliation processes. Read more: Enab Baladi
Jaime Dunaway interviews Syria Justice and Accountability Centre (SJAC) Executive Director Mohammad Al Abdallah about life as a detainee in Syria and SJAC’s work to build cases against perpetrators of atrocities. Read more: Global Journalist
Avi Asher-Shapiro examines ongoing efforts by social media companies to remove images and videos that show evidence of atrocities in Syria and how it threatens the building of legal cases against perpetrators of war crimes and crimes against humanity. Syria Justice and Accountability Centre (SJAC) Executive Director Mohammad Al Abdallah states that social media companies […]
One year after Russian intervention in Syria, Syria Justice and Accountability Centre (SJAC) Executive Director Mohammad Al Abdallah speaks to Enab Baladi about human rights violations committed by Russian forces during the conflict. Al Abdallah also discusses Russian efforts to undermine Syrian peace negotiations, the political transition process, as well as the establishment of an […]
Syria Justice and Accountability Centre (SJAC) Executive Director Mohammad Al Abdallah speaks to Euronews about the need for Syria peace negotiations in Geneva to prioritize justice and accountability. “One of the shortcomings of the Geneva negotiations, the political track, is not prioritising justice, accountability, victims redress. For example, De Mistura failed miserably in delivering anything […]