Prisoner amnesties decreed by the Syrian leader, Bashar al-Assad, during the country’s 10-year war have freed less than 6% of detainees, with an estimated 136,000 people remaining in state prisons, a report has revealed. The amnesties, which were hailed as acts of benevolence by officials...

Paris – The Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) revealed in a report released Wednesday, that it documented at least 208 cases of arbitrary arrest/detention in October 2022, including seven children and five women, noting that resuming the 2017’s voluntary repatriations programs by...

A man and his son died under torture in the prisons of the Syrian regime, after being detained for nearly two years, the Syrian Network for Human Rights said Thursday. "Mu'ayyad Muhammad Al-Obeid", and his son "Abdul Aziz", from the city of Al-Qaryatayn, east of Homs province, born in 1976...

On Thursday, a Syrian human rights center revealed the existence of 7 sites used by the Islamic State group to hold Syrian and Western detainees. The Syrian Center for Justice and Accountability said that "the information it collected during the criminal legal cases filed against the...