The Syrian British Council (SBC) sent an official letter on the 7th of July to Mr. Jonathan Hargreaves, the UK Special Representative to Syria, with regards to the Syrian regime’s inhumane besiegement of 40,000 civilians in Daraa al-Balad.
Do you think the Olympics is a place for war criminals? Omar Aroub, a former member of the National Union of Syrian Students (NUSS) and a war criminal, will be representing the Syrian delegation at the Olympics next month. Aroub is responsible for overseeing violent suppression of protests, detention, and torture of students at the University of Aleppo. Alongside the Syria Campaign…
On Friday, the 2nd of July, the Syrian British Council hosted a public webinar titled: The Future of Cross-Border Aid Operations to Syria, where our distinguished panellists provided an in-depth analysis about the humanitarian, medical and political ramifications on northern Syria should the Security Council fail to reauthorize the UN mandate for cross-border aid operations, UNSCR 2533 (2020). To watch the full…
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…
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…
Consultant Investigator for the Syrian British Council – Daraya Investigative Project More details
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…