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Human Rights in SYRIAN ARAB REPUBLIC

Amnesty International  Report 2013


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Kept in the dark – the murky world of enforced disappearances ...
29 August 2012

Enforced disappearances - a crime under international law - are still carried out in many countries around the world.

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Syria: Female student arrested and detained in Syria: Zilal ...
29 August 2012

Nineteen-year-old female student Zilal Ibrahim al-Salhani was arrested at her home in Syria on 28 July. Apart from one phone call that day, she has been held without ...

Urgent Action       MDE 24/075/2012

Syria: Civilians bearing the brunt in the battle for Aleppo
23 August 2012

Civilians are increasingly bearing the brunt of the violence in the bitter battle between Syrian government forces and opposition fighters for control of Aleppo ...

PressItem       MDE 24/073/2012

Syria: Activist's brother detained, risks torture:
17 August 2012

A 17-year-old boy, Salah al-Shogre (or al-Shogri), brother of a detained activist, was arrested on 28 July in Syria and has been held incommunicado since then. ...

Urgent Action       MDE 24/072/2012

Syria: Further information: Syrian activist faces secret military ...
10 August 2012

Syrian activist Mazen Darwish, director of the Syrian Centre for Media and Freedom of Expression in Damascus, is about to be referred to a secret military court ...

Urgent Action       MDE 24/071/2012

Syria: Amjad Kassem seen in detention
7 August 2012

Syrian businessman Amjad Kassem, held in conditions amounting to enforced disappearance since 21 May, was seen in two State Security branches in the capital, Damascus ...

Urgent Action       MDE 24/070/2012

Syria: FSA killings probe findings 'must go to UN inquiry' ...
3 August 2012

A Free Syrian Army probe into the alleged unlawful killings of 14 members of the al-Berri clan must be impartial and independent, and its results referred to the ...

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Syria: From all-out repression to armed conflict in Aleppo ...
1 August 2012

A new Amnesty International report says the assault by state forces on Aleppo is the culmination of months of a brutal crackdown on dissident voices.

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Syria: All-out repression: Purging dissent in Aleppo, Syria
1 August 2012

Since anti-government protests intensified in Aleppo in early 2012, Syria's security forces and armed militias working alongside them have responded with all-out ...

Report       MDE 24/061/2012

Amnesty International | Syria: Disturbing reports of summary ...
25 July 2012

The assault by government forces on the city of Aleppo is the culmination of months of a brutal crackdown against dissident voices, Amnesty International said in ...

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