Whilst acknowledging that genuine human rights defenders form part of the committee’s list of names, the Syrian British Council regards the recent establishment of the UN Constitutional Committee for Syria as an attempt by Russia to rehabilitate the Assad regime in the eyes of the international community. The Syrian British Council calls on the committee’s members to reject this attempted rehabilitation. A…

Over 73 civilians have been killed and more than 110 injured in atrocities committed by the combined airforces of Russia and the Assad regime over Syria’s Norh-Western province of Idlib since Monday 22nd July. On Monday alone, five children and eight women were killed by Russian airstrikes on a busy marketplace in the Syrian city of Ma’arat al Numan, which resulted in…

The Syrian British Council reminds the Home Secretary that NGOs and dual British-Syrian nationals with relatives still residing in parts of Syria, may be affected by the Designated Area Offence legislation. Whilst we acknowledge allowances provided to NGO and humanitarian workers operating in areas likely to be designated dangerous as part of this law, we urge the Home Secretary to maintain the…

At the end of April, the Assad regime and its ally Russia escalated a devastating campaign of aerial bombings against civilians, schools and hospitals in Syria’s Idlib province, amounting to war crimes that are leaving thousands homeless, hundreds killed, and thousands more at risk of death with no access to emergency medical care. Russia and Assad’s campaign intends to terrorise Idlib’s population…

The Syrian British Council (SBC) categorically rejects all and any move that would enable the Assad regime to gain de facto control over the decision-making and transportation process of humanitarian aid within Syrian territory. The SBC reminds OCHA of the regime’s track-record of intentionally and actively manipulating and preventing the delivery of humanitarian aid to parts of Syria outside its control ….