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SBC’s Investigations Team met virtually with the UK FCDO’s Syria Team on 24 July 2024 to discuss our recently published report, “Militia on Campus: Crimes of the National Union of Syrian Students at Damascus University”. We shared an overview of our investigation and report with the FCDO and tied it to concerning developments regarding the gradual renormalisation of relations with the Assad…

Dar Justice signed onto a joint statement alongside nearly 60 Syrian civil society organisations calling on US President Trump to lift sanctions on Syria during his Middle East trip in the coming week. Read the Statement

SBC’s Investigations Team handed over information, including on potential witnesses, to the US Department of Justice, Human Rights and Special Prosecutions Unit on 24 October 2024 pertaining to the ongoing Sheikh case. Samir Sheikh, a former high-ranking Assad regime official, is currently being held in the United States on visa fraud charges. Syrian civil society organisations and supporters are pushing to have…

Dar Justice’s report “A Decade After Daraya: Documenting A Massacre” attracted global media coverage including: English: The Guardian BBC Witness History BBC The World Tonight (at 29:00) BBC News Yahoo! News The New Arab (English) The Jurist The Center for Justice and Accountability German: Der Spiegel Arabic: Al Jazeera Al Hurra Aawsat The New Arab (Arabic) Al Jumhuriyah Enab Baladi Megaphone Halab…

Dar Justice investigator and OSINT specialist Hussam Kassas organised a two-day training workshop for a group of volunteers on open-source research. Volunteers learned about the basics of cybersecurity and open-source research. The volunteers will begin a project to archive publicly available documentation and organise it to extract potential evidence pertaining to commission of war crimes or crimes against humanity.