Syrian Network for Human Rights - SNHR
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An independent human rights organization founded in 2011, documents human rights violations in Syria SNHR works on filing U.N.
The Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) is a non-profit non-governmental human rights organization that was founded in June 2011 in light of the systematic rise of violations of human rights in Syria. SNHR hopes to contribute to maintaining and defending victims’ right and consequently boost accountability processes, achieve justice and peace, raise the awareness of the Syrian people in regard to their civil and political rights, and amass efforts and capacities in the context of putting an end to violations of human rights in Syria. SNHR’s main focus is counting and documenting victims, detainees, and forcibly-disappeared persons on a daily basis in addition to documenting the daily attacks on vital civilian facilities and barrel bombs use considering the deadliness and randomness of that weapon. Also, SNHR works on documenting massacres against civilians in Syria, violations against media activists, deaths due to torture, medical and civil personnel victims, violations against women, children, refugees among other groups. SNHR publishes most notable daily news and figures, monthly reports that outline a monthly toll of each violation, and annual reports that contains a toll of the various violations of human rights by all of the parties to the conflict over the course of the year. Furthermore, SNHR publishes special, non-periodic reports that addresses a specific type of violations or more in Syria or on one of the parties that commit these violations, or the mechanisms and methods through which violations are practiced. SNHR also releases special researches on violations of human rights in Syria that expand on a particular subject matter by tackling it from a comprehensive standpoint. Additionally, SNHR works with a number of organizations to release joint reports that shed light on the violations against the Syrian people. Special Rapporteurs forms – particularly the Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial Killing, Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances, and Special Rapporteur on Torture. Moreover, SNHR works on training human rights defenders, raise the awareness of the local actors on the international laws that govern the present situation in Syria, support negotiation processes on detainees between the different parties to the conflict…
SNHR is one of the most prominent sources for statistics on violations in Syria as the group provide researches, think tanks, and human right organizations that are interested in the Syrian issue with statistics and data per their requests. SNHR also provide media outlets with statistics, data, and eyewitness in the course of covering a particular development, in addition to providing local political and civil institutions with the statistics they request as well as international official institutions. SNHR is a member of the International Coalition for the Responsibility to Protect (ICR2P), a member of the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Network, a founding member and an executive committee member at the Transitional Justice Coordination Group (TJCG), and a partner with the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor. Additionally, SNHR collaborates closely with the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Syrian Arab Republic, which was established by the United Nations Human Rights Council, and with a number of international human rights organization such as Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, Al Karama organization, and The Syrian Campaign…. In addition to a number of local Syrian organizations. SNHR has representatives in the United States, France, and Turkey who works on raising the awareness of the civil society, decision-makers, and human right defenders, in addition to advocating victims’ rights by publishing documented information, data, and statistics. SNHR also calls for making every possible effort to fight violations of human rights in Syria, support accountability and justice processes, and amass efforts towards building peace.
28/09/2026
The Arab Center for Contemporary Syria Studies has published a paper titled “Trials Without Detention: The Enforcement Gap and the Outputs of Accountability in the Cases of Bashar al-Assad and Maher al-Assad,” authored by Mr. Fadel Abdulghany, Executive Director of the Syrian Network for Human Rights.
The paper examines the feasibility of legal proceedings related to the trial track of Bashar and Maher al-Assad through three levels:
Legal-doctrinal level: An analysis of personal and functional immunities in light of the two rulings issued by the French Court of Cassation on 25 July 2025, alongside an examination of the cross-border limits of the ne bis in idem principle.
Theoretical level: A reconceptualization of the enforcement gap as a stable structural condition within a defined time frame, with a focus on the distinctions between evidence and proof, investigation and adjudication, and evidence-gathering and the authority to rule on criminal responsibility.
Applied level: Recommendations for the institutional actors involved in the accountability system, taking into account the jurisdictional limits of each actor and what each can contribute within those limits.
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28/09/2026
Daily Report on Civilian Casualties in Syria On September 27, 2026
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27/09/2026
Daily Report on Civilian Casualties in Syria On September 26, 2026
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26/09/2026
Daily Report on Civilian Casualties in Syria On September 24-25, 2026
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24/09/2026
Twelve Years After the International Coalition’s Intervention in Syria and Following the Fall of the Assad Regime, States Should Establish a Commission for Civilian Compensation and Reparation
The Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) has documented the killing of at least 3,048 civilians, including 925 children, by International Coalition forces since the beginning of its military operations in Syria in September 2014.
In its report, SNHR documents the harm inflicted on civilians, including 172 massacres and 181 attacks on vital civilian facilities, and examines the legal framework governing State responsibility and reparation.
SNHR notes the absence of a unified and independent mechanism through which Syrian civilians can submit claims, receive reasoned decisions, and seek independent review of those decisions.
SNHR calls on the States that participated in International Coalition operations to establish an independent commission for civilian claims and reparation in Syria, tasked with assessing civilian harm linked to Coalition operations and determining responsibility based on the available facts and evidence.
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24/09/2026
Daily Report on Civilian Casualties in Syria On September 23, 2026
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22/09/2026
When people are forced from home, how can documentation serve as a strategic lever to protect rights and strengthen social cohesion?
Join us September 23 at 9 am ET for the next Hive Mind Series session, “Documenting Refugee Experiences,” exploring how documentation in displacement can improve protection, strengthen community resilience and social cohesion, and advance accountability.
Moderated by Justine Di Mayo, Deputy Program Director at ICSC, this conversation brings together practitioners working across different regions and contexts to explore why and how we need to move from seeing refugee documentation as an administrative or humanitarian task to treating it as a long-term investment in rights, community resilience, and social cohesion.
Register now via https://tinyurl.com/Hive-Mind-10
22/09/2026
Trial Monitoring Report on the First and Second Hearings in the Trial of Ahmad Badr al-Din Hassoun before the Fourth Criminal Court in Damascus
The Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) has released a report monitoring the proceedings of the first and second hearings in the trial of Ahmad Badr al-Din Hassoun, the former Grand Mufti of the Syrian Arab Republic, before the Fourth Criminal Court in Damascus, held on 25 June and 16 July 2026.
The report provides an interim assessment of respect for fair trial guarantees, monitoring the extent to which the rights of the defense were upheld during the two hearings, including the presence of the accused accompanied by his lawyer, his being informed of the charges and given an opportunity to respond, and the defense being enabled to present its witnesses.
SNHR also identifies a number of issues requiring further scrutiny, most notably the availability of complete audio and visual evidence to the defense, the safeguards surrounding the withholding of the identity of a prosecution witness, and issues relating to the appearance of judicial impartiality.
SNHR emphasizes that this assessment is limited to monitoring the trial proceedings and fair trial guarantees and does not address the criminal responsibility of the accused or determine the accuracy of the facts attributed to him.
The full report is available in the first comment.
21/09/2026
Daily Report on Civilian Casualties in Syria On September 20, 2026
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20/09/2026
SNHR Welcomes the Sentence Issued against Samir Ousman Alsheikh and Stresses the Role of Independent Documentation in Supporting Accountability Pathways
SNHR welcomes the sentence issued on September 17, 2026, by the United States District Court for the Central District of California, ordering the imprisonment of Samir Ousman Alsheikh, one of the former senior security officials in the regime of Bashar al-Assad, for a period of sixty years. A federal jury had convicted him, on March 16, 2026, on six counts, these being: conspiracy to commit torture, three counts of torture, fraud in the possession and use of an immigration document, and attempted naturalization fraud. The torture counts centered on the period in which Alsheikh ran Adra Central Prison in Damascus between 2005 and 2008.
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