The fall of Assad’s vast network of prisons, security hubs, and military sites have uncovered archives of horrors, documents that could bring justice and answers for Syria’s victims and survivors. However, these sites are fragile, and the evidence risks destruction.

There was no place more feared in Assad’s Syria than Sednaya Military Prison. By Sunday, the guards had fled, its doors were flung open and this fortress of terrified silence was alive with the sounds of parents and children calling out for their missing. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/1...

As Syria’s notorious prisons empty, families search for the missing

Tens of thousands of Syrians disappeared into Assad’s network of brutal prisons. After his downfall, families are finally hoping for news of their loved ones.

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1/ Since 2016, the UN’s IIIM has been working to preserve and collect crucial evidence of crimes in Syria, gathered by Syrian individuals and civil society organisations.

Assad is gone. After decades of suffering under his brutal regime, Syrians are celebrating a historic moment of freedom and hope. This is the message we've waited so long to share: diary.thesyriacampaign.org/syria-is-fre... #Syria #FreeSyria

Syria is free of Assad

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Assad appears to have left the country, after 100s of thousands disappeared, tortured, & killed and millions displaced. 54 years of Assad seemingly over To Syria with love.

Assad boarded a plane and left Damascus for an unknown destination, two senior army officers told Reuters www.reuters.com/world/middle...

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has left Damascus to an unknown destination, say two senior army officers

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad boarded a plane and left to an unknown destination, two senior army officers familiar with the incident told Reuters on Sunday.

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In 2016, alongside Forensic Architecture, Amnesty International documented and recreated the atrocities of Sednaya. Tonight, Sednaya prison—nicknamed the “slaughterhouse”—is no more. Prisoners, many of whom whose fate had been undetermined for the last decade, are now free.

Given fears that there may be new chemical attacks in Syria, here's a thread on some of the chemical munitions used in the past by the Syrian government. First, there's been two primary agents use, chlorine gas, and sarin, each associated with specific munitions.

🧵 The situation in Syria is having an important news moment. Opposition groups, namely Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), in the northwest have launched their biggest push in years against government forces.

The ICC has issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant for crimes against humanity and war crimes in Gaza. www.icc-cpi.int/news/situati...

Situation in the State of Palestine: ICC Pre-Trial Chamber I rejects the State of Israel’s challenges to jurisdiction and issues warrants of arrest for Benjamin Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant

Today, on 21 November 2024, Pre-Trial Chamber I of the International Criminal Court (‘Court’), in its composition for the Situation in the State of Palestine, unanimously issued two decisions rejectin...

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As we all manage the migration from X to BlueSky, I've made a starter pack of interdisciplinary folks to follow who work on open-source investigations in crisis and conflict settings. I'll add more as they join! go.bsky.app/C6shkSV