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Families of the disappeared, organisations in MENA sound the alarm over crackdown on families amid continued crimes

Ahead of the International Day for the Victims of Enforced Disappearance, MENA Rights Group joins families of the missing and partner organisations in a statement calling on governments across the MENA region to put an end to the use of enforced disappearance and to honour victims' and families’ demands for truth, justice, accountability and reparations.

Joint statement on the fate of the Missing, Detained and Forcibly Disappeared and guarantee the freedom and safety of human rights defenders in Syria

Six years ago, the joint office of the VDC, LDSPS and Rising for Freedom in Douma in Eastern Ghouta (north of Damascus) was raided by armed men who abducted four human rights defenders, Razan ZAITOUNEH, Wael HAMADA, Samira ALKHALIL and Nazim HAMMADI. The parties controlling the region have changed and tens of thousands of people […]

Towards accountability and justice to end impunity in Syria

We, the undersigning organisations, welcome the French prosecutor’s decision to issue  arrest warrants against three senior Syrian security officers: first and foremost Major General Ali Mamlouk, the Director of the Syrian National Security Bureau, Major General Jamil Al Hassan, the Head of Air Intelligence Branch and Abdel Salam Mahmoud, the Head of the Air Force […]