Articles for Syria

On 10 August 2015, Mazen Darwish, Director of the Syrian Centre for Media and Freedom of Expression (SCM), was freed from State Security Branch No.

On 28 July 2015, Alkarama and Human Rights Guardians sent a communication to the United Nations Working Group on Enforced Disappearances (WGEID) regarding the case of Hassan Saeed, an activist from Homs who disappeared following his arrest by members of the army and the Military Intelligence in August 2012.

On 17 and 18 July 2015, members of the Syrian Centre for Media and Freedom of Expression (SCM) Hussein Gharir and Hani Al Zitani were freed from Hama Prison, after three years spent behind bars, following numerous calls by Alkarama and numerous other organisations, as well as various UN instances.

On 25 June 2015, Alkarama and Human Rights Guardians sent a communication to the United Nations Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances (WGEID), concerning the case of Ahmed Al Zaidan, a 28-year-old Syrian married worker from Al Lataminah, a village in northern Syria, disappeared since his arrest by the S

During its 72nd session held in Geneva on 20-29 April 2015, the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention (WGAD) adopted an Opinion on the case of Bassel Khartabil, a fervent defender of the right to freedom of expression who has been detained without trial since his arrest by the military security on 15 March 2012. In this Opinion, the WGAD considers his detention "arbitrary" and calls for his immediate release.

On 18 May 2015, Alkarama and Human Rights Guardians sent a communication to the United Nations Working Group on Enforced Disappearances (WGEID) regarding the case of three members of a same family – Abdul Aziz, Abdel Hakim and Mahmoud Bakkar – all disappeared since their respective arrests

On 29 April 2015, Alkarama and Human Rights Guardians sent a communication to the UN Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances (WGEID) regarding the case of four men arrested by Syrian armed forces in the Hama Governorate between March and October 2012, who remain disappeared

On 23 April 2015, Alkarama sent a communication to the UN Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances (WGEID) concerning the case of Nazir Idris and Sabah Kabakibo, a married couple from the district of Khaldiyeh in Homs and parents of four children, who disappeared after their arrest at a checkpoint of the Air Force Intelligence by the Mediterranean coast over two years ago.

(Geneva,28 April 2015) - To mark the 38th birthday (on April 29) of missing human rights defender and lawyer Razan Zaitouneh, head of the Violations Documentation Centre in Syria (VDC), winner of the 2011 Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought and the 2011 Anna Politkovskaya Award of RAW in WAR (Reach All Women In War), the undersigned human rights organizations today reiterate theircall for her immediate release, as well as thatof her missing colleagues Samira Khalil, Nazem Hamadi and Wa'el Hamada.

On 31 March 2015 and 7 April 2015, Alkarama and Human Rights Guardians referred to the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Syrian Arab Republic (CoI Syria) the cases of three Syrian citizens abducted between July and October 2013 by the al-Nusra Front and