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One Year Since the International Court of Justice’s Decision to Impose Provisional Measures Against the Syrian Regime for Violating the Convention Against Torture   On November 16, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) issued its decision in response to a request by Canada and the Netherlands to renew provisional measures in the case concerning the

After 12 years of conflict in Syria, enforced disappearances are still unresolved with no serious solutions. Syrian human rights organizations and civil society organizations documented more than 112,000 individual cases, while the International Center for Missing Persons estimated that there were more than 23,000 cases of disappearance among Syrian men and women. With the lack

On 23 September 2024, the bereaved families of victims of the Syrian secret service filed a criminal complaint with the Federal Public Prosecutor General in Karlsruhe. They were supported by the Caesar Family Association (CFA) and ECCHR. The complaint concerns murder, arbitrary detention, enforced disappearance and torture in four cases. It is directed against high-ranking