Sawsan Um Muhammad, 31, can never forget the torture she suffered in prison after she was detained by the Bashar al-Assad regime forces seven years ago. "We were not seen as human beings, all prisoners were treated as sheer numbers," she said. At least 500,000 people including women are...

Award-winning Palestinian director Yasmin Fedda's latest documentary, "Ayouni", sheds light on Syria's forced disappearances through the intimate stories of Noura, widow of cyber-activist Bassel Safadi, and Machi, sister of Italian priest Paolo Dall'Oglio, who was abducted in Raqqa in 2013 and...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- About 50 prisoners from southern Daraa province were released due to a special amnesty by Bashar al-Assad, a local rights group said Friday. Assad's move came to ease tensions amid a hike in skirmishes over past months in the cradle of the Syrian revolution....

A total of 14,388 people tortured to death in Syrian civil war since March 2011 were mostly by the Bashar al-Assad regime, according to the Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR). Ahead of the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, SNHR, which documents violations of civil...