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At least 194 arbitrary arrests documented in April: SNHR

Paris – The Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) announced in its latest report, released Thursday, that it documented at least 194 arbitrary arrests/detentions in April 2022, including six children and three women, noting that the monthly number of arbitrary arrests carried out by the...

463 media workers lost their lives since 2011: monitor

The Syrian Center for Journalistic Freedoms has documented the killing of 463 media and press workers in Syria between March 2011 and March 2022. "With the outbreak of the Syrian revolution in March 2011, the Syrian regime embarked on a systematic campaign with the aim of eliminating any...

Crowds in Syria await prisoners freed in amnesty

Damascus (AFP) – Families of prisoners held for years in Syrian jails gathered Wednesday, hoping their loved ones were among the "hundreds" the government said had been released in a mass amnesty. A crowd of hundreds waited in the centre of the capital Damascus, with dozens camping out...