Justice Seen Award Syrian British Consortium – The investigations team Concept The Justice Seen Award promotes and recognises effective communication on justice and accountability issues, particularly related to human rights in Syria, in the belief that visibility is key to bringing accountability, and key to effective judicial responses. The first Justice Seen Award will be given for a student-made social media video…
SBC is proud to co-facilitate an advocacy coalition (Free Syria’s Disappeared) composed of victims and families organisations and activists calling for the release of detainees in Assad’s prisons. The Coalition was launched on 12 April in response to the filing of the Mzaik v. Syria case. For more information on the coalition, please visit its website, Twitter page, and Instagram account.
On March 13, 2024, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum’s Simon-Skjodt Center for the Prevention of Genocide and the Syrian Emergency Task Force, hosted a roundtable of experts at the Museum in Washington, DC to discuss accountability mechanisms for the atrocities committed in Syria. Sema Nassar from SBC’s Investigations Team participated in the panel discussion, emphasising the importance of establishing the “Independent…
SBC’s investigations team joined the Syrian Centre for Media and Freedom of Expression in the virtual launch of their report, “The National Union of Syrian Students: A Biography of Violations”. Dr Yasmine Nahlawi served as a panelist in the launch and discussed methodological aspects of documenting crimes committed by the National Union of Syrian Students (NUSS) given SBC’s investigation on NUSS crimes…
Members of SBC’s Investigations Team attended the “Syrian Civil Society Chemical Weapons Conference” on 23 November in The Hague, which discussed the prospect of establishing a comprehensive justice mechanism for victims of chemical attacks in Syria. Conference attendees welcomed the arrest warrant issued by France on 16 November against Syrian President Bashar Assad, his brother Maher Assad, and two other Syrian regime…
About SBC: The Syrian British Consortium (SBC) is a UK-based Syrian advocacy body which works towards establishing a channel of communication amongst diaspora-based Syrians and building a platform that amplifies their voices with the UK Government, Parliament, and international policymakers. SBC (SBCoun) is a not-for-profit organisation registered in the UK (company limited by guarantee, No: 11582740). About the Investigative Team: The investigations…
SBC is proud to support a civil lawsuit (Mzaik v. Syria) filed by the Center for Justice and Accountability in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia against the Syrian Arab Republic. The lawsuit was filed on behalf of a Syrian-American man who was detained and tortured at the Assad regime’s Air Force Intelligence Branch at the Mezzeh Military Airport…
SBC’s investigations team was awarded the Judith Lee Stronach Award for human rights defenders by the Center for Justice and Accountability (CJA) during CJA’s 25th anniversary gala for our investigation into the August 2012 Daraya massacre. One of our lead investigators, Aseil Abu-Baker, accepted the award in San Francisco on behalf of the team and delivered a moving speech (see below) regarding…
On Dec 1, 2022, Dr Yasmine Nahlawi, the head of the Investigation Team at the Syrian British Consortium (SBC), visited the International, Impartial and Independent Mechanism (IIIM) office in Geneva alongside the Center for Justice and Accountability. SBC previously submitted evidence pertaining to the August 2012 Daraya massacre to the IIIM. During this visit, we provided the IIIM with copies of the…