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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
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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
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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
Inside SJAC’s Open-Source Investigative Team
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
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
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
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
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
Life After ISIS: Prospects for Reconciliation in Formerly ISIS-Controlled Syria
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