Bashar al-Assad

Representatives and dignitaries of Syrian communities attend a two-day national dialogue conference in Damascus (Syria)

Seeking justice in Syria: the advantages of the Assad regime

27 March 2025 by Asymmetrical Haircuts

Trying to figure out the landscape of mass crimes justice initiatives on Syria, after the fall of former president Bashar el-Assad, can only be an uncertain prediction game. In this podcast, Uğur Üngör talks about what we know.

Justice in Syria. Portrait (drawing) of Nadim Houry, international lawyer.

Justice in Syria should be “a new social contract”

25 February 2025 by Franck Petit (Justice Info)

Two months after Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s ouster, director of the Arab Reform Initiative Nadim Houry explores the possibilities for transitional justice. In his view, “civil peace without justice is inconceivable today” [...]

Putin, Netanyahu, al-Assad, Jammeh, Hasina, Akhundzada, Bozizé, al-Bashir, Hlaing, Mengistu: the ten heads of state wanted by international justice. Illustration: portraits of the 10 heads of state on a map of the world and a ‘wanted’ stamp.

Putin, Netanyahu and the others: ten wanted heads of state

17 February 2025 by Golnouche K. Barzegar (Justice Info)

It's a very exclusive club, and here is its world map. The club of heads of state wanted for international crimes. There are ten of them. At the top of this ‘wanted list’ are those accused of war crimes or crimes against humanity [...]

International justice for Bashar al-Assad's crimes in Syria. Photo: Broken portrait of Bashar al-Assad next to documents.

“We will follow them wherever they will go”

13 December 2024 by Franck Petit (Justice Info)

Renowned Syrian lawyer Anwar al-Bunni and his colleagues at the Syrian Center for Legal Studies and Research have been leading figures in Syrian efforts for justice. In Europe, they have initiated, with other organizations, univer [...]

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Arrest warrant issued by the French courts against Bashar Al-Assad (Syrian President), in connection with the 2013 chemical attacks in Syria. Photo: Poster in a Syrian street showing Al-Assad with a gas mask over his face.

26 June 2024 by AFP

Setback for Bashar al-Assad before the French courts On 26 June, the Paris Court of Appeal allowed the arrest warrant for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, accused of complicity in crimes against humanity for deadly chemical attacks in August 2013. This would be the first arrest war [...]

Syrian trial in Paris (France) - Obeida Dabbagh speaks to the press following the verdict of three high-ranking Syrian security officials found guilty, in their absence, of crimes against humanity (torture) committed against his brother and nephew.

Syria

3 June 2024 by Franck Petit (Justice Info)

Syrian trial: what to learn from this first default judgment In the four-day Syrian trial in Paris, judges on May 30 gave their reasoning for the verdict handed down on May 24. In a symbolic recognition for victims, three high-ranking Syrian security officials - Ali Mamlouk, Jamil Hassan an [...]

Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad and his brother Maher are being prosecuted in France for complicity in crimes against humanity and war crimes.

15 November 2023 by AFP

Assad brothers charged with complicity in crimes against humanity Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, his brother Maher and two other generals, Ghassan Abbas and Bassam al-Hassan, are the subject of an international arrest warrant issued by the French judiciary, revealed on November 14. They are c [...]

In a street whose buildings are completely devastated (Yarmouk district in Damascus, Syria), a distribution of food aid is organized for many refugees

Syria

9 January 2023 by Hannah El-Hitami

Patrick Kroker: “They saw injuries nobody could have survived” In Berlin, a former militia member from Syria is accused of war crimes for firing a grenade into a group of civilians in Damascus in 2014. The trial is the third in Germany to prosecute crimes of the Bashar al-Assad regime. Lawyer [...]

Military parade in the presence of Bashar al-Assad

Syria

9 April 2021 by Lena Bjurström

Austria: High-potential investigations on Syria crimes Austria, a pioneer of extraterritorial jurisdiction that tried a Bosnian for genocide as early as 1994, still does not have an investigation unit dedicated to international crimes. However, it is investigating at least two major S [...]

Sedra Alshehabi stands with a placard with the picture of her father Ali and a text reading 'First step but my father and 130000 are still in jail' after the verdict in the trail of Syrian defendant Eyad al-Gharib

Syria

1 March 2021 by Hannah El-Hitami

Germany: Lessons from the first conviction of an agent of the Syrian regime On February 24 Eyad al-Gharib was the first Syrian regime official to be convicted by a German court for aiding and abetting the torture and detention of protesters in 2011. The minor role the defendant played in those crimes is m [...]