The UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Syria has released a new report entitled “No End in Sight: Torture and ill-treatment in the Syrian Arab Republic 2020-2023”. It covers the continuing widespread and systematic patterns of torture and ill-treatment, including enforced...

A Palestinian refugee died under torture in the prisons of the Syrian regime, the Action Group for the Palestinians of Syria said.  It quoted one of those released in May 2022 as confirming the death of Fadi Omar Aziri, of the "Jdeidet Artouz" area in the countryside of Damascus, and...

An American and two French are among thousands of detainees who were killed by the Syrian in detention centers, official documents showed. Zaman al-Wasl has obtained official documents uncovering the fate of 500 detainees who were killed in the Syrian regime prisons since the...

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...