Search
Advanced search

Syria

Court in Berlin where Moafak D is tried for war crimes in Syria.
5 min 34

Syrian war crime trial in Berlin: a late alibi for defense

Last Thursday, 16 February, in Berlin, Germany, Palestinian Syrian militiaman Moafak D.’s defense gave their final statements and called for his acquittal. They argued their client had been injured and bedridden at the time of the crimes – an alibi that had not been mentioned until early this year, at the very end of the […]
By Hannah El-Hitami
Read more
Yarmouk camp in Damascus (Syria)

Syria: Berlin prosecutors urge life sentence in war crimes trial

In a street whose buildings are completely devastated (Yarmouk district in Damascus, Syria), a distribution of food aid is organized for many refugees

Patrick Kroker: “They saw injuries nobody could have survived”

Is there a right methodology to document war crimes in Myanmar, Syria, Iraq or Ukraine?

A soldier of the Syrian government army points his weapon at a large hole whose bottom is not visible

What the Alleged Arrest of Tadamon Perpetrator Tells Us About the Syrian Regime Model of Transitional Justice

A doctor holds a bloodstained open book in a hospital

Germany: When Syrian doctors became part of Assad’s terror

2 Syrian victims and activists demonstrate with signs outside the court in Koblenz, Germany, following the trial of Anwar Raslan

Anwar Raslan's conviction: "The beginning of a wider struggle"

Anwar Raslan in the dock in Koblenz (Al-Khatib trial), Germany

Syria: Anwar Raslan gets life sentence for crimes against humanity

Anwar Raslan during his trial in Koblenz, Germany

Defence: “Raslan did whatever he could to help”

Syrian Colonel Anwar Raslan handcuffed during his trial in Koblenz (Germany)

Prosecution: "Raslan was either powerless, or he wasn’t"

Anwar Raslan in the dock in Koblenz (Al-Khatib trial), Germany

Syrian torture trial in Germany: “Raslan was scared”

Destroyed buildings in Homs, Syria

In France, the lengthy Syrian investigations

Landscape of the region of Deir ez-Zor in Syria

Caught killing on camera in Deir ez-Zor

The hands of a Syrian doctor with blood on his scrubs

Syrian trial in Germany: the role of doctors and hospitals in the Assad regime’s prison system

Demonstration in Damas, Syria

At the Syrian trial in Germany, personal encounters with Colonel Raslan

Justice applied in the Netherlands on crimes committed in Syria

Syria, the Dutch international crimes unit new focus

Military parade in the presence of Bashar al-Assad

Austria: High-potential investigations on Syria crimes

Sedra Alshehabi stands with a placard with the picture of her father Ali and a text reading 'First step but my father and 130000 are still in jail' after the verdict in the trail of Syrian defendant Eyad al-Gharib

Germany: Lessons from the first conviction of an agent of the Syrian regime

Syrian civilian riding his bike through the street near the remains of a car bomb explosion

Sweden on the frontline with Syria cases