Syria: Eight arrested for critical online posts
As part of an ongoing campaign to “combat the spread of false news and rumours” on social media, authorities arrest eight people for their Facebook posts, including prominent Damascus-based TV presenter Hala Al-Jarf.
Syria: Thousands of prisoners at risk of infection from the COVID-19 outbreak
A lack of government transparency and access to health records, as well as overcrowded, unsanitary detention centers are putting thousands of Syrian prisoners at risk of infection from the COVID-19 virus. Rights groups call for the release of detainees, including political prisoners and human rights defenders whose numbers remain largely unknown.
Syria: Women journalists facing smear campaigns and sexist attacks
Women reporting from Syria’s Idlib region are faced with online smear campaigns and threats of violence in an increasingly polarized media landscape.
The Disappeared: Where are Syria’s forcibly disappeared activists?
Rights groups issue a joint statement on the missing, detained and forcibly disappeared human rights defenders in Syria, calling for their release, and an end to the culture of impunity for perpetrators of crimes against humanity.
Syrian photojournalist Amjad Hassan Bakir killed in suspected regime missile strike
Bakir was embedded with the Free Idlib Army whose fighters were in a truck that was hit by a plane-fired missile.
Syria: Detention, harassment in retaken areas
Active combat has ended in much of Syria, but nothing has changed in the way intelligence branches trample rights of perceived opponents of Assad’s rule.
‘Envision a new war’: The Syrian Archive, corporate censorship and the struggle to preserve public history online
Social media companies are censoring images of war. The Syrian Archive is working to preserve them.
Well-known Syrian citizen-journalist probably died in detention in 2013
Ali Mahmoud Othman’s family was recently told he died in detention and is seeking official confirmation of his death and the return of his body.
Germany arrests two Syrians for alleged crimes against humanity
Anwar R. (56) and Eyad A. (42) are being charged with torturing detainees while they were Syrian intelligence officers in 2011 and 2012.
Five years have passed since Syrian citizen-journalist Amir Hamed was abducted
Amir Hamed was abducted by gunmen from his home in Derbasiyah, North-Eastern Syria, on 11 January 2014. His whereabouts are still a mystery.
Five years on, we remember Razan, Samira, Nazem and Wa’el
On 9 December, people around the world remembered Razan Zaitouneh, Samira Khalil, Nazem Hamadi and Wa’el Hamada, kidnapped in Douma, Syria on this day five years ago.
Damascus journalist has a million stories but none she can safely report
As a Syrian freelance journalist living in Damascus, Joudy Boulos’ ability to report is severely limited by the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
Two reporters injured by Turkish gunfire near Turkey-Syria border
Gulistan Mohammad and Ibrahim al-Ahmed were shot while covering the effects of Turkey’s shelling of the northern Syrian city of Tell Abbyad.
Will Syria follow in the UAE’s footsteps and censor VoIP services?
The Syrian Telecommunication Regulatory Authority (TRA) announced that it may soon begin blocking voice and video calls on WhatsApp and other Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) services.
Syrian human rights lawyer Yasser Al-Saleem arrested in Idlib
An armed group stormed Al-Saleem’s home and arrested him along with activist Abdelhamid Al-Bayoush, who was visiting him.
Syrian military intelligence arrests Syrian Kurdish journalist at checkpoint
Syrian military intelligence forces stopped and arrested Kalo at a checkpoint between the northern Syrian cities of Mambij and Aleppo on August 25.