On Tuesday 23 April 2019 SBC attended an evening with Dr. David Nott and emergency humanitarian aid charity Syria Relief at the Palace of Westminster. The event was Co-hosted by the Rt. Hon Andrew Mitchell MP and Alison McGovern MP.
On the 18th of April, the Syrian regime announced that Syria’s presidential elections will be held on the 26th of May and on 21st of April, Bashar al-Assad, has officially announced his candidacy. These elections, which certainly guarantee the continuation of al-Assad’s brutal autocracy, are set to take place in the midst of a perpetual violent conflict where the ruling regime is…
بيان مشترك: الانتهاكات مستمرة في كافة المناطق السورية بما فيها شمال سوريا ولهذا الإعادة القسرية للاجئين تشكل تهديدًا جديًا. على السلطات التركية احترام تعهداتها بموجب القانون الدولي العرفي الذي يحظر الإعادة القسرية بشكل مطلق. نحن، منظمات المجتمع المدني السوري الموقعة أدناه، نشعر بقلقٍ بالغٍ إزاء قرار الحكومة التركية الأخير إعادة اللاجئين السوريين قسراً إلى شمال غرب سوريا. يُعدُّ هذا القرار انتهاكاً…
Many massacres were committed by The Assads, both the father and the son, since the 1980s till this very moment. However, the chemical massacre was the most horrible one among all these crimes, not only because of the number of casualties, the weapon used, or the human tragedy it caused. But because it was committed under the eyes of the whole world…
The Syrian British Council (SBC) strongly condemns the decree signed by Prime Minister Hussein Arnous on July 8th that necessitates returning Syrians exchange $100 or other Central Bank approved hard currencies into Syrian Lira. Citizens exchanged money loses about half of its value in accordance with customs and aviation authorities’ rates, which is directly pocketed by the regime. The decree only exempts…
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…
Today marks the 7th anniversary of one of the most heinous crimes Syria has witnessed since the uprising in 2011. Early hours of 21 August 2013, rebel-held parts of east and west Ghouta, just on the outskirts of Damascus, were struck by rockets containing the chemical agent sarin. The rockets targeted the towns of Ghouta and suffocated more than 1,125 people to…