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Syria at Human Rights Watch; Syria Charter of Rights and Freedoms Is a proposed modern system of human rights for adoption prior to a new Syrian constitution. 2010 Human Rights Report: Syria, U.S. Department of State, 8 April 2011 "Syria rights activist jailed for five years". Middle East Online. April 24, 2007.
Government forces have committed gross violations of human rights and the war crimes of murder, hostage-taking, torture, rape and sexual violence, recruiting and using children in hostilities and targeting civilians. Government forces disregarded the special protection accorded to hospitals and medical and humanitarian personnel.
The Syrian Observatory of Human Rights reported that according to a defected ISIS leading figure from Syrian descent, over 200 ISIS fighters from Chechnya and central Asian nationalities were executed for trying to defect from IS to join Jabhat al-Nusra. [49]
Many countries whose citizens traveled to Syria to join IS have been reluctant to repatriate them, as have local communities in Syria. "People held in this system are facing large-scale violations of their rights, some of which amount to war crimes,” Nicolette Waldman, Amnesty’s senior crisis advisor, told journalists.
The human rights group interviewed 126 people accused of IS affiliation currently or formerly detained, along with representatives of the local administration and aid workers.
Syrian Human Rights Committee reported that number of deaths rose to 32, [128] while AFP reported that more than 100 people were killed by police gunfire in Daraa. [129] Syria freed writer Louai Hussein, who was detained earlier this week for posting a petition online demanding the right to freedom of expression [130]
Human rights in Ba'athist Syria were effectively non-existent. The government's human rights record was considered one of the worst in the world. As a result, Ba'athist Syria was globally condemned by prominent international organizations, including the United Nations, Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, [1] [2] [3] and the European Union. [4]
The following is a timeline of the Syrian uprising from September to December 2011.This period saw the uprising take on many of the characteristics of a civil war, according to several outside observers, including the United Nations Commission on Human Rights, as armed elements became better organized and began carrying out successful attacks in retaliation for the ongoing crackdown by the ...