Tuesday , 19 January 2021
This is the second of a series of research blog posts investigating violations of international humanitarian law since the military offensive began on 18 February 2018 by Russian-backed Syrian government forces to root out armed opposition groups... Read more »
This is the first of a series of research blog posts investigating unlawful attacks since the military offensive began on 18 February 2018 by Russian-backed Syrian government forces to root out armed opposition groups based in Eastern... Read more »
This briefing describes serious abuses of human rights committed in detention facilities run by the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS),1 an armed opposition group that currently controls significant swathes of territory and people in northern Syria, including in al- Raqqa governorate and... Read more »
By Amnesty International’s Syria researcher Cilina Nasser in Istanbul 8 November 2013 “I’m not thinking about the future…I’m thinking about what we have left behind. I did not say a proper goodbye to my father and... Read more »
By Cilina Nasser, Amnesty International’s researcher on Syria, this was originally posted on MSN UK 22 August 2013 It is impossible to watch the videos that emanated from Syria yesterday and not be moved, yet again, to... Read more »
Mass killings took place in al-Baydah on 2 May and Banias on 3 May. Research carried out by Amnesty International into the incidents found that pro-government forces were behind the deaths of at least 130 individuals in al-Baydah and... Read more »
Information researched by Amnesty International indicates that the death in custody at end of June of Nader al-Bayoumi, a 35-year-old man detained by the Lebanese army following armed clashes between the military and followers of Sunni Muslim cleric Sheikh Ahmed... Read more »
Human rights researcher and blogger.