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…
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…
We, in the Syrian British Consortium (SBC), stand with Syrians around the world in solidarity with the peaceful uprising of the Iranian people against their brutally oppressive regime. Our hearts go the families of peaceful protestors who were detained and killed by the Iranian security forces. The violent mentality of the Iranian regime has led to decades of gross human rights violations…
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…
New Syria investigation reveals planned and coordinated attack and crimes against humanity on a massive scale, ten years on Team of Syrian investigators expose heinous crimes committed by Syrian regime and allied forces during one week in Daraya in August 2012 Ten years on from the week Syrian regime and allied forces killed more than 700 people, including children, in Daraya, a…
On July 28, Mr. Mazen Gharibah, the Executive Director of the SBC, met with Bambos Charalambous MP, UK’s Shadow Minister for the Middle East and North Africa. The meeting focused on the issue of accountability in Syria, specifically with regard to the issue of detainees and those forcibly disappeared, and the accountability of individuals involved in the repeated use of chemical weapons…
SBC participates in the Arria-formula Security Council meeting about the enforced disappearance in Syria On the 3rd of June, the Security Council held an Arria-formula meeting under the title “Voices of Syrian Women’s Voices on Detainees and the Disappeared in Syria”, which was co-convened by a the Syrian Negotiation Committee and a number of victims’ associations in Syria. During this meeting, Ms….
In light of the horrific events exposed by New Lines Magazine and the Guardian on April 27, 2022, which show leaked footage of summary execution taking place in #Tadamon in #Damascus in 2013 at the hands of the #Syrian regime, and the breathtaking story of how two academics hunted down the perpetrators, the SBC hosted an online Q&A session with one of…
As Syrians, who have been suffering from the catastrophic consequences of the Russian military forces, we stand in solidarity with the citizens of Ukraine who are courageously facing a Russian invasion on their country. Over the past seven years, the Russian army, the main ally of al-Assad regime, has been playing a major role in destroying hospitals, targeting humanitarian workers, displacing thousands…