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
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
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
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
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.
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