SNHR expressed alarm over the decree’s substantive content—specifically its exclusion of “gross violations against the Syrian people.”
Maznah Dreid, a member of the Syrian Political Feminist Movement, told the UN Security Council in New York on Friday that the movement was forced to relocate its seventh general conference to Beirut after failing to obtain official approval in Damascus.
Dr. Rasha Serob views these disasters as the predictable outcome of what she calls a failure of the political and social “market.
The Syrian government has made “nascent steps” toward justice and accountability for past crimes but its efforts remain “insufficient, selective, and lacking in transparency,” according to the Human Rights Watch (HRW) World Report 2026.
Between 8 December 2024 and 23 January 2026, the Network documented the killing of 204 civilians, among them 24 children and 19 women.
The issue, then, is not whether Alawites will integrate into the new Syria, but whether Syria will succeed in becoming a state capable of integrating all its citizens, Enab Baladi argues.
Yasser al-Shalati, director of investigative mechanisms at the Association of Free Syrian Lawyers, said the Hamsho deal falls under the Anti-Corruption Committee’s newly launched “voluntary disclosure program.”
The op-ed published by Syria’s Justice Minister raises more doubts than it resolves, Hussein Shishakly argues in Zaman al-Wasl.
It is my responsibility to clarify that our aim has always been – and remains – to achieve justice, Syria’s Minister of Justice writes.
Syria commemorated International Human Rights Day for the first time in its history.
The fall of Assad’s regime has not produced a unified vision for Syria’s future, Ahmad al-Jaber argues in Al-Hal.
Human Rights Watch has issued a report marking the first anniversary of the Assad regime’s collapse. It acknowledges that the new authorities have taken meaningful steps in justice, transparency, and rights protection, yet warns that they have not prevented continuing violence and serious abuses.
The report warns that the security vacuum gripping parts of the country remains severe despite the transition away from Assad’s rule.
For the first time in recorded history, the Orontes River—Syria’s ancient artery of sustenance, known in Arabic as Nahr al-Asi—has shriveled into a parched scar across the western landscape
The trial is taking place before a regular military criminal court in Aleppo, based on military and general penal codes, with no legislative framework specific to transitional justice, Michel Shammas writes in Al-Modon.
Fourteen defendants stood before the bench, including former regime loyalists and current personnel from the Ministry of Defence, Syria TV writes.
Human Rights Watch released a report outlining the steps needed to achieve comprehensive justice in Syria.
Sources informed Syria Television that the Palace of Justice in Aleppo would host not only the initial sessions related to the Coastal Events but also trials concerning crimes committed under the deposed Assad regime.
Saad Baroud, Director of International Organizations and Conferences at the Syrian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, asserted that development and human rights are fundamentally linked.
The network cautioned that retaining perpetrators within state structures poses a threat not only to victims but to Syria’s future. It concluded: “True justice begins with clean institutions that uphold human rights and serve the citizen—not merely in appearance, but in essence.”
