Dar Justice attended Madaniya’s conference titled ‘Justice and Accountability in Syria’s Political Transition’ which was hosted in Paris, France on 12 February 2025. The conference brought together various Syrian perspectives on justice and looked forward to priorities and challenges related to the delivery of justice in Syria.
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’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 organised a two-day training workshop for a group of fifteen Syrian activists inside and outside of Syria on an introduction to international crimes as well as conducting witness interviews. Participants received an introduction into defining and categorising international crimes, the basics of conducting witness interviews. They also had an opportunity to conduct mock interviews and receive individualised feedback.
SBC’s Investigations Team formally filed a criminal complaint with the French prosecutors against Omar Aroub on 24 July 2024. Aroub was scheduled to attend the 2024 Paris Olympics, which will take place later this month and next month. Following an intense public pressure campaign co-led by SBC’s Investigations Team and The Syria Campaign, it has been confirmed that Aroub will no longer…
Syria Notes conducted an interview with the head of SBC’s Investigations Team, Dr Yasmine Nahlawi, regarding the team’s work in documenting war crimes and crimes against humanity in Syria and building case files against perpetrators. The resulting article, published on 10 September 2024, discussed the Team’s past achievements and future plans, and outlined the role that the new UK Government should have…
SBC’s investigations team is pleased to announce that evidence collected from its investigation into the August 2012 Daraya massacre has been transferred to the International, Impartial and Independent Mechanism (IIIM). The evidence, and thus the experiences of over twenty witnesses to the atrocities that were committed in Daraya in August 2012, has been organised according to the types of crimes committed, and…