Amnesty International and Syria

Against this context, Silvana's mixed Lithuanian and Syrian heritage provides an interesting commentary on Sweden's relationship with race. At the same time, her budding romance with fellow pop star Beatrice Eli also propels her to icon status within her country's LGBTQ community, creating a compelling ...

Latest estimates from the Syrian Observatory of Human Rights (SOHR) and the United Nations refugee agency, UNHCR, suggest five million Syrians have ... Organisations such as Human Rights Watch (HRW) and Amnesty International have said that all sides in the Syrian conflict have committed human ...

They were taken to the rebel-held Idlib province in northwest Syria, where more than 1 million others have taken refuge from the violence that has engulfed the country. Living conditions in the camps there are abysmal, the U.N. and aid agencies say, and the province is exposed to regular Syrian ...

Amnesty International doesn't want you to respect the Syrian government. Reviewing its press releases about Syria, it is all one-sided; the jihadis hardly merit a meaningful rebuke. But no report was as distorted as its multimedia presentation of the purported abuses in the Saydnaya Prison. Here Amnesty's ...

“We have previously documented how the use of incendiary weapons is burning alive civilians who are literally left with nowhere to hide. This attack would appear to be the latest horrific example in that pattern. “In areas besieged by the Syrian government such as Daraya and elsewhere, civilians told us ...

To mark the seventh anniversary of the Syria conflict, Amnesty International is calling for the international community to assume its responsibilities and urgently act to end the suffering of millions of Syrians and bring an end to the bloody assault on besieged civilians in Eastern Ghouta and Afrin.

“Ahmed H, who was simply trying to help his family flee Syria, has been unjustly demonized both inside and outside the courtroom. None of the evidence against Ahmed constitutes “an act of terror” and his conviction is a blatant misuse of terrorism-related provisions. “After more than two-and-a-half years ...

Tell the Syrian and Russian Governments to end the attacks and lift the siege on Eastern Ghouta immediately. Your Message. President. Vladimir. Putin. Russia. Dear Presidents Putin and Assad, I am writing about the catastrophic situation in Syria's Eastern Ghouta where more than 400,000 people have been suffering ...

... is in its power to ensure that those responsible for the atrocity crimes committed in Eastern Ghouta are held to account for these horrific acts. “The Syrian government must immediately provide UN independent monitors with access to Syria in order to investigate violations of international humanitarian law.