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The disappearance of two men from one family by the hands of the military security in Hama

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On June 15, the Human Rights Guardians organization

addressed the Working Group on Enforced

or Involuntary Disappearances at the United Nations on cases of Syrian citizens

from one family,

who’s disappeared in the Hama Governorate

in western central Syria by the military security forces without reason

and transferred them to an unknown destination and denied their presence. Since then their families are unaware of their whereabouts, and have taken no action to find out their fate for fear of reprisal or arrest.

The first victim Wardan AL-nemr

was in his house when At exactly 6:00 pm

on the date of the accident,

a yellow taxi Hyundai Verna taxi came to Al-Dahra neighborhood,

with three members of the military Security in addition to the driver, and they entered the neighborhood and arrested Wardan and his brother-in-law,

Wael Jadou ‘,

and then they went to branch 217 according to them For an investigation with him

after one hour, his brother-in-law, “Wael Jadoua” was released.

Just 50 days after the arrest of Wardan, they heard from an unknown person working for the Military Security that he was in Branch 215, and he said that he had been interrogated by Captain Muhammad, head of the investigation department in Branch 217, and they then transferred him to Branch 215 and he was prepared to transfer to Sednaya prison. His brother Muhammad Fayez Al-Nemr negotiated this unknown person to get him out of prison and clear his record for 16 million Syrian pounds, but he did not have 1% of that amount and he asked for a week to be able to secure the amount, but he heard that the detainee was transferred to Damascus and had not heard any news about him ever since.

The second victim Husien Al-nemr

who was arrested by two members of the security forces,

including Abu Rami and captain Waseem from Tartous, came and took him, claiming that he had painted the walls of the checkpoint.

  After two hours,

the security forces stormed the victim’s house at two o’clock in the afternoon.

They were about 20 members and took him to the village checkpoint.

  Then they  returned  him to agricultural land

claiming the existence of a hidden weapon,

knowing that he is innocent, then they took the victim to the Military Security Branch next to the village and then he was transferred to Damascus

in the Military Security Branch 215 and they heard with unconfirmed information or confirmed

by an official document of his death there.

The practice of enforced disappearance has been widespread since the beginning of the conflict in Syria, systematic and promoted crimes against humanity that do not fall out of date.

And human rights protectors are concerned about the fate of the two victims and the widespread violations of their basic rights, and called on the international team to interfere with the authorities to help the relatives of the two victims know the fate and whereabouts of their relatives and release them quickly.

Antakya 15/06/2020

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Its spread can be prevented Covid-19

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Press release Turkey

May 3rd 2020

Human Rights Guardians

The Syrian regime and the rest of the parties should release prisoners to prevent the spread of the Covid-19 virus

Human rights Guardians stated that all parties to the conflict in Syria, especially the Syrian regime, which has the most violating cases of arbitrary arrest, enforced disappearance, and torture, should immediately release and without any restrictions or conditions prisoners, politicians, human rights defenders, and prisoners who may be at risk of getting infected by Covid-19 virus Like elderly and sick people with weak immunity and chronic diseases.

Where tens of thousands of prisoners, detainees and forcibly disappeared persons are detained in the prisons of the Syrian regime and the security branches, and they suffer from improper, unclean and overcrowded conditions of detention, without hygiene conditions, treatment is not provided and diseases such as scabies and cholera are spread.

The International Commission of Inquiry on Syria also stated in its report “out of sight, out of mind” that prisoners and detainees are at risk of death at any moment. Other than beatings, torture, and inhumane conditions such as severe overcrowding, lack of food and clean water, lack of medical care, many died from diarrhea or diseases that are treatable, others have been killed by medical personnel in military hospitals, others have received limited treatment, and so are the Tahrir al-Sham prisons, opposition factions, and Kurdish forces prisons.

 Suleiman Issa, executive director of Human Rights Guardians, says

The UN envoy had to urge all parties to release the detainees rather than focus on the mini-committee and return to negotiations, especially since the risk of a pandemic of Covid-19 could spread quickly among detainees due to overcrowding, lack of spacing, poor hygiene, poor health services and all government-held detention centers the parties.

Background

Arbitrary detention and consequently enforced disappearance constituted a widespread violation since the early days of the peaceful movement. The Syrian regime and its repressive tools were among the most violating, practicing systematic and widespread disappearance and detention against all opponents, political activists, and relief workers, and after that other parties entered the conflict As the number of detainees reached more than 100 enforced disappearances and missing persons according to the Syrian Network for Human Rights only 138 in April 2020 and Human Rights Guardians have documented 3200 enforced disappeared and missing persons according to internationally accepted standards of data collection and participated with the International Committee for Missing persons ICMP and documented the poor conditions of detention the detainees suffered, such as torture, beatings and systematic abuse in addition to overcrowding in detention centers, detainees, malnutrition, and the scarcity of contaminated drinking water and food contaminated with the spread of infectious diseases and treatment.

 The organization therefore urgently recommends the following

  1. All parties release political prisoners, prisoners of conscience and human rights defenders
  2. Early release of elderly and sick people who are likely to get infected and lose their lives.
  3. All parties, especially the Syrian regime, to comply with the World Health Organization and international agencies and organizations to avoid a humanitarian catastrophe as a result of the spread of Covid-19.
  4. Prison administrations follow well-studied and practical regulations that include urgent preventive measures, starting with the imposition of hygiene and separation between detainees, ending with the provision of medical treatment for all, the provision of water and clean food, and the introduction of sterilizers.

Antakya / Hatay / Turkey     May 3rd 2020

استهداف مدنيين وسط مدينة أريحا-2

Human rights guardians submits compliant about the extrajudicial killings civilians in Ariha town, 13km to the south of Idlib city, Syria

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On Sunday, 5st of January 2020, Syrian forces aircrafts bombarded a residential area in Ariha town at 12:39 Damascus time. The bombardment caused the immediate death of 9 civilians including 3 children and 2 women in addition to the injury of 15 others. Two days later, the number of killed civilians increased to 13 due to the severe injuries. The attack brought partial destruction to the town’s Mosque and school in addition to the properties of the residents that were used mainly to shelter the displaced persons from other regions. According to the flight observatories in the region, the attacking aircraft is believed to be a Sukhoy used by the Syrian governmental forces.

The attack is considered to be part of the on-going military campaign launched by the Syrian forces and its Russian allies since 19 December 2019.

 

Human rights Guardians believe that the aforementioned cases are extrajudicial killings, which are the responsibility of the Russian and Syrian alliance, and that they are crimes against humanity and war crimes, and an immediate investigation must be opened, holding those responsible accountable and compensation for the victims

And the above-mentioned attack also violated the principle of military necessity, which is provided for in Rule 50 of the ICRC’s Customary IHL Study, which stipulates that destruction of the property of an adversary is prohibited, unless required by imperative military necessity.

Human Rights Guardians also believe the above-described attack violated the principle of proportionality, provided for in Rule 14 of the ICRC’s Customary IHL Study, .

On28 , January Human Rights guardians filed a complaint with the Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial killings or by a brief or arbitrary procedures, requesting that the Syrian authorities must stop their attacks on civilians, open an immediate and transparent investigation into these cases, and bring those responsible to justice.

For more information, please contact the media team via:

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Hatay-28-01-2020

القتل خارج القضاء: استهداف مدنيين وأطفال بمدينة سرمين بريف ادلب 01-01-2020

compliant about the judicial killings of 9 civilians as a result of a ground attack launched by the Syrian governmental forces against Sermin, a town in the province of Idlib in Syria, which took place on the 1st of January 2020

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On Wednesday, 1st of January 2020, ground-to-ground missiles were launched from the Abu Al-Zohour airbase, controlled by the Syrian governmental forces, attacking the surrounding of the “Salamah Abboud” school in Sermin town. The area is residential, and no military presence of any kind is based there, thus, no military necessity can be argued in attacking a civilian object represented in the school and its civilian surroundings. Moreover, the area forms a place of refuge for many displaced persons from Maarat Al-Numan, and the school itself is partially used to shelter many of them. The cluster ammunition loaded to the used missile add another proof of the deliberate targeting of civilians including those who escaped death throughout the ongoing military campaign against Idlib province by the Syrian forces and its allies. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and the White Helmets have reported the incident and confirmed the abovementioned details.

Human rights Guardians believe that the aforementioned cases are extrajudicial killings, which are the responsibility of the Russian and Syrian alliance, and that they are crimes against humanity and war crimes, and an immediate investigation must be opened, holding those responsible accountable and compensation for the victims

And the above-mentioned attack also violated the principle of military necessity, which is provided for in Rule 50 of the ICRC’s Customary IHL Study, which stipulates that destruction of the property of an adversary is prohibited, unless required by imperative military necessity.

Human Rights Guardians also believe the above-described attack violated the principle of proportionality, provided for in Rule 14 of the ICRC’s Customary IHL Study, .

On28 , January Human Rights guardians filed a complaint with the Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial killings or by a brief or arbitrary procedures, requesting that the Syrian authorities must stop their attacks on civilians, open an immediate and transparent investigation into these cases, and bring those responsible to justice.

For more information, please contact the media team via:

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Hatay-28-01-2020

استهداف المنطقة الصناعية وسوق الهال بمدينة إدلب 15-01-2020

Human Rights Guardians files a complaint to the rapporteur on extrajudicial killing about the victim of targeting the industrial zone and and the cardamom market (Souq Al Hal) in the city of Idlib on 15-01-2020

by Englishسجل انتهاك

On 01/15/2020,

a MiG-23 plane took off from Hama Military Airport,

the symbol: (Sumood) steadfastness, according to flight tracking observatories, at 2:00 .

it flew over Ma’arat Al-Numan northerly

and then at 2:04, it dropped bombs and barrels on the industrial area

and the cardamom market (Souq Al Hal) in the city of Idlib.

in the north-eastern.

which was crowded with civilians where there were no clear military targets throughout all the region.

19 civilians, including a civil defense volunteer

and a child were died in addition to the wounding of more than 68 others.

The raid brought the shops and neighboring buildings destruction.

and panic was spread among the civilians who rushed to refuge in the neighboring basements, teams rescue rushed  to evacuate dead and alive persons

Evidence The gathered evidences by local observatories, which were able to track the aircraft from its taking-off, during the raid itself.

indicated that the described attack above was carried out by a Syrian warplane took off from Hama Military Airport, as well as it was of a MiG-23 type.

The attack took place  after the declared truce by the Turkish and Russian governments.

a day before.

where that truce completely collapsed and the Syrian forces launched more than one hundred air strikes on all Idlib cities, towns, and countryside, and Jericho,which led to the collapse of that truce basically .

Suleiman Issa, executive director of Human Rights guardians , says :

9 years ago and the killing machine against the Syrian people hasn’t been stopped

where the biggest losers are civilians, punished by the Syrian and Russian authorities by directly targeted in striking their gathering places such as popular markets, camps for the displaced, and residential areas. These violations are all considered as war crimes and crimes against humanity’,

Suleiman Issa, the executive director of Human Rights Guardians, says.

On January 17, Human Rights Guardians Organization had submitted a complaint

to the special Rapporteur on extrajudicial

summary or arbitrary executions seeking her to call on the Syrian authorities and their Russian ally to stop their attacks on civilians, and to open an immediate and transparent investigation of these cases, and bring those responsible to justice to punish them.

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Antakya ( Antioch) / Hatay January 17, 2020

حُماة حقوق الإنسان تُقدم شكوى إلى المُقررة الخاصة بالقتل خارج القضاء عن

Human rights Guardians file complaint with the decision on extrajudicial killings of victims of the targeting of the popular Saraqeb market on 21-12-2019

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Antakya:  06-10-2019

On the 21st of December 2019 on Saturday at 31.11 PM one of the Syrian regime’s aircraft was executed. Twenty two aircraft that took off from Al-Tiffour airport at 22.11 PM, according to the air-based observatories, carried out and fired three missiles at one time in the city of Saraqeb in a popular market, killing eight people, including three people.  A child, twenty-five people, including a civil defense volunteer, women and children, all civilians were injured and the bombings caused massive destruction on the city’s main streets.  In addition to the shops and houses owned by civilians in the city. These attacks also led to panic among civilians, forcing them to close their shops in the market, resorting to underground cellars and fleeing into the unknown.

This attack comes after the fierce campaign launched by the Syrian government and the Russian on December 19, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which pointed to the recruitment of regime forces large military reinforcements to the eastern countryside of Ma’rat al-Numan, where there were intensive Russian raids on that area.  The near target is the Damascus-Aleppo International Road.

This vicious attack led to hundreds of daily raids on residential areas and popular markets and led to the displacement of more than 220,000 civilians so far displaced towards the areas of Bab al-Hawa to the Syrian-Turkish border and most of them live in the open now.  The focus is firing on Ma’rat al-Numan is to send indirect messages to parents to watch it because they will be the second target after Ma’rat al-Numan.

Suleiman Issa, executive director of The Human Rights Guardians, said that this is not the first time that the Syrian-Russian alliance has targeted popular markets that do not contain any military bases or points.  The displacement of them from their villages and cities, all in a systematic and deliberate manner through targeted and unguided missiles and barrel bombs, is a war crime and a crime against humanity, and the above-mentioned deaths resulting from the attack are the result of the Syrian authorities violating their obligations under the rules of international humanitarian law.   The Geneva Convention and their additional protocols that prohibits indiscriminate attacks against the civilians and consequents of unnecessary suffering.  This attack violated the principle of discrimination, which is enshrined in rule one of the rules of customary international humanitarian law, which requires the parties to the conflict to distinguish between combatants and civilians.

On 6 January 2020, human rights defenders filed a complaint with the Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, including calling on The Syrian authorities to stop their attacks on civilians, to open an immediate and transparent investigation into these cases and to bring those responsible to justice.

For justice and punishment for more information, please contact the media team at:

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Antakya 06.01.2020

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Human rights guardians submits compliant about the extrajudicial killings in KAH refugee camp on November 20th 2019

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At 8:30 p.m., when the Syrian regime forces and the Iranian militias supporting them launched a missile with a cluster payload from Jabal Azan base in the southern countryside of Aleppo towards the camps of KAH town in the north of Syria, which most of its residents are displaced citizens fleeing death from the northern Hama countryside and the southern Idlib countryside, 52 were Injured according to the testimony and statement of the civil defense, and the bombing led to partial destruction of the maternity hospital for women and children, the burning of a large number of tents, and the displacement of those who survived.

According to the civil defense certificate, which said it had found the remains of the missile, which was a short-range Toshka

” 9M79 Tochka

Which is Russian made and owned only by the Syrian regime and its Iranian and Russian ally.

Civil defense teams rushed to rescue the wounded, evacuate them, transfer serious injuries to Turkish hospitals, and extinguish fires.

Sulaiman Issa, executive director of Human Rights guardians, says that targeting a camp for displaced persons with coordinates and a known location does not contain any military bases or points systematically and intended by guided missiles is a war crime and a crime against humanity and that The deaths mentioned above as a result of the attack are a result of a violation by the Syrian authorities of their obligations under the rules of customary international humanitarian law, the Geneva Conventions, and their additional protocols, which prohibit indiscriminate attacks against civilians and the consequent unnecessary suffering. This attack violated the principle of distinction, which is enshrined in Rule No. 1 of the rules of customary international humanitarian law that requires parties to a conflict to distinguish between combatants and civilians.

On December 6, Human Rights guardians filed a complaint with the Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial killings or by a brief or arbitrary procedures, requesting that the Syrian authorities must stop their attacks on civilians, open an immediate and transparent investigation into these cases, and bring those responsible to justice.

For more information, please contact the media team via:

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Antakya – 6 December 2019

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Human Rights Guardians have submitted three cases of enforced disappearances in Syria

by Englishبيان

Geneva, 23rd of November. Human Rights Guardians have submitted three cases of enforced disappearances in Syria to the United Nations Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances (WGEID), requesting that the UN experts promptly intervene with the Syrian authorities to ensure the individuals’ immediate release.

On September 4th 2013 the first victim arrived at the central hospital in Mehrdah as a result of a stray bullet wound to his right shoulder while the Syrian army was swiping the Area with machine guns. He was arrested on charges of breaking into the checkpoint with evidence of a gunshot wound and then being dragged from the operating room to an unknown destination.

The victim, who was a self-employed worker, was arrested by the Air Force Intelligence along with his brother on his way back from the airport road when they brought their niece to her home in Deir Ali area. They were then transferred to the military security detachment in Zeinab. After 4 days they were sent to an unknown destination, their family tried to find them but to no avail.

The last victim was arrested by members of the Military Security on 31 January 2013

While he was sleeping in his house in Kafr Sousse, a military security patrol stormed the house on charges of demonstrating with terrorists as they described.

He was beaten in front of his wife and children and taken to an unknown destination that the family believes was in Branch 215 of the Military Security.

Human rights Guardians referred the above cases to the Working Group on Enforced Disappearances and requested the experts of the Working Group to urge the Syrian authorities to release immediately the three victims, in all cases to disclose their fate, whereabouts and status under the rule of law.

  Over the past years, enforced disappearance has been used as a weapon of war by all parties in Syria and the bulk of enforced disappearances have been by the Syrian authorities. The International Commission of Inquiry on Syria said in a report that there was a systematic and widespread practice of enforced disappearance in Syria, a crime amounting to a crime against humanity.

. Suleiman Issa, executive director of Human Rights Guardians

Syrian authorities continue to detain more innocent people in Syria without charge and conceal their fate. It is a shame to arrest a person without any guilt s/he has committed, and these practices must stop and hold the perpetrators accountable.

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