Category: Syria

Written Statement: Violations of the Turkish-backed armed factions in northeastern Syrian Arab Republic

February 28, 2021January 9, 2023 admin

Human Rights Council Forty-sixth session 22 February–19 March 2021 Agenda item 4 Human rights situations that require the Council’s attention A/HRC/46/NGO/74 Written statement* submitted by Partners For Transparency, a non-governmental organization in special consultative status PDF Preamble Personal safety of civilians in northeastern Syrian Arab Republic (Syria) has become very difficult to attain due to…

OHCHR, Syria, War Crimes

SHOR: Turkey’s gangs digging near the Roman Amphitheater in Nabi Huri, Afrin

February 27, 2021January 9, 2023 admin

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported that military groups of the Turkish-backed factions returned excavation work in the surrounding areas of the “Roman amphitheater” near the Nabi Huri fortress in Shera district in Afrin countryside, north-west Aleppo. According to SOHR sources, Turkish-backed militiamen have used heavy diggers and earth-moving machineries for digging and excavating…

News, Reports, Syria

Al-Hirmas and al-Khider killers captured

February 13, 2021February 15, 2021 admin

The two killers of Si’da al-Hirmas co-chair of the Tal Shayer Council and deputy Hind al-Khider were captured by the Anti- Terror Units of the Syrian Democratic Forces. Information available signify that ISIS affiliates that killed Si’da al-Hirmas, co-chair of the Tal Shayer Council, and deputy Hind al-Khider were captured by the Anti- Terror Units…

Syria, Women

Yazidi woman kidnapped in occupied Afrin, delivered to Turkey for trial

February 11, 2021February 15, 2021 admin

An abducted Yazidi woman has been delivered to Turkey for trial “on charges of terrorism”. A Yazidi woman aged 45, named Ghazala Mannan Salmo, from the Yazidi village of Basufan in Afrin’s Sherawa district, was abducted by Turkish-backed Faylaq al-Sham mercenaries, reported the Human Rights Organization of Afrin, Syria. According to the organization, the woman…

Syria, Women

UN special envoy for Syria plans to attend the next Astana meeting in Sochi

February 10, 2021February 15, 2021 admin

The United Nations envoy to Syria said that the fifth session of the so-called “Syrian Constitutional Committee” was disappointing, and that he planned to attend the Astana meeting between the three deals (Russia, Turkey and Iran) in Sochi. On Tuesday, the UN Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for Syria Geir Pedersen said that he intends to attend…

OHCHR, Syria

UN calls on 57 countries to repatriate their nationals held in Hol camp

February 9, 2021February 15, 2021 admin

Fifty-seven countries have women and children living in detention camps in northeast Syria, a United Nations expert Fionnuala Ni Aolain said, calling on states to repatriate their nationals immediately. United Nations expert Fionnuala Ni Aolain called on states to repatriate their nationals held in camps in northeast Syria immediately. Ni Aolain was referring to ISIS…

OHCHR, Syria

HRW: Illegal Transfers of Syrians to Turkey

February 3, 2021February 4, 2021 admin

Over 60 Detained, Forcibly Moved from Occupied Territories (Beirut) – Turkey and the Syrian National Army have arrested and illegally transferred at least 63 Syrian nationals from northeast Syria to Turkey to face trial on serious charges that could lead to life in prison, Human Rights Watch said today. Documents obtained by Human Rights Watch…

News, Reports, Syria, Turkey

Lawyers: Tel Rifaat massacre is war crime according to international law

January 30, 2021 admin

Lawyers from Manbij city explained that the Tel Rifaat massacre is a war crime against humanity in accordance with the international law, which considers targeting civilians a war crime, demanding the international organizations to stop the Turkish aggression and its violations against civilians in the region. The attacks of the Turkish occupation state and its…

News, Syria, War Crimes