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‘Simple as Water’ Review: Family Ties That Span the Globe

Megan Mylan’s latest documentary feature takes a humble idea — telling intimate and humanizing stories of Syrian families affected by their home country’s civil war — and achieves it on a nakedly ambitious scale. Filmed over five years in five separate countries, “Simple as Water” is...

The torture continues, say Syrian refugees who returned

Shortly after Denmark began telling Syrian refugees that parts of Syria are "safe" and stripped them of their temporary protected status, I talked to a 31-year-old refugee who voluntarily returned to Syria from Jordan in December 2020. He told me otherwise. Someone in the Danish government...

204 arbitrary arrests documented in October: Syrian Network

The Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) has documented at least 204 cases of arbitrary arrests/ detentions in October 2021, including one child and nine women.   Most of the arrests in Syria are carried out without any judicial warrant while the victims are passing through...

Tribunal probing journalist slayings opens in The Hague

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — A “people's tribunal” opened Tuesday in the Netherlands to highlight the number of journalists around the world who were killed for doing their jobs, often with impunity for their killers. The tribunal, convened by a group of press freedom organizations,...