On December 23, 2022, U.S. President Joe Biden signed the annual National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which included the “Countering Assad’s Proliferation Trafficking And Garnering Of Narcotics Act,
TRIAL OF ALAA M. Higher Regional Court – Frankfurt, Germany Trial Monitoring Summary #26 Hearing Dates: November 8 & 10 2022 CAUTION: Some testimony includes descriptions of torture. Note that this summary
Higher Regional Court – Frankfurt, Germany Trial Monitoring Summary #25 Hearing Dates: October 31 & November 3, 2022 CAUTION: Some testimony includes descriptions of torture. Note that this summary is not a
Part II – Child Perpetrators in SDF and Iraqi Custody Read part I here [https://syriaaccountability.org/holding-minors-accountable-for-serious-crimes-committed-in-syria/] This brief is the second in a two-part series which aims to answer
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
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
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
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.
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
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.