In March of this year, the Syria Justice and Accountability Centre (SJAC), along with a number of Syrian families whose loved ones were kidnapped by ISIS, were scheduled to attend
A German court has scheduled the first hearings in the ground-breaking trial of a former Syrian government official and his subordinate for acts of torture, the first [https://www.ecchr.
COVID-19 has almost certainly reached Syria. The extent of the infection, however, has been completely shuttered from the outside world. Officially, the Syrian government claims zero confirmed cases, but the
For months, leaders in Europe watched the crisis in Idlib unfold with routine condemnation and little action. European leaders were finally shaken from passivity on February 27, when Turkey announced
On the eve of the 9th anniversary of the Syrian revolution, the Syria Justice and Accountability Centre (SJAC) has released “The State of Justice in Syria 2020 [https://syriaaccountability.org/
On January 29, 2020, former senior official for Jaysh al-Islam Majidi Mustafa Ne’ma [https://www.fidh.org/en/region/north-africa-middle-east/syria/syria-a-senior-jaysh-al-islam-official-arrested-in-france-and] (known by his nom de guerre as
In late December 2019, President Donald Trump signed [https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/whats-caesar-act-donald-trumps-738bn-defence-policy-bill] a $738 billion defense policy bill that included legislation to further the existing sanctions regime targeting
SJAC, in collaboration with the Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team (EAAF), has begun providing technical trainings in mass grave exhumation and documentation to the First Responders’ Team (FRT) working to open
While fears of forced return have long haunted Syrian refugees in neighboring countries, including Lebanon [https://syriaaccountability.org/updates/2019/07/18/new-government-policies-worsen-conditions-of-refugees-in-lebanon/] and Turkey [https://syriaaccountability.org/updates/2019/
Foreign involvement in the Syrian conflict can be traced to every corner of the globe, including Russia, Turkey, the United States, and neighboring countries such as Iraq, Lebanon, and Iran.