Mass graves found near Syria’s capital could contain thousands of bodies

Financial Times | Recognition on the importance of the ground presence of CIJA’s Syrian investigators in securing evidence of the Regime’s criminality, spanning over 50 years.

Tagesspiegel | [German] A CIJA investigator and Director of External Relations spoke with Tagesspiegel on the work to secure evidence of Regime command and control structures.

The Times | Christina Lamb spoke to William Wiley on the scale of the Assad regime’s machinery of death, spanning more than 50 years.

New York Times |Nerma Jelacic, Director of External Relations spoke with Mathew Mboke Bigg about the documents collected by CIJA that link Assad’s senior-most officials to the prisons and detention centres operating across the country.

CNN | Stephen Rapp, CIJA’s Chairperson, spoke to Bianna Golodryga on the importance of achieving justice in Syria, including through the millions of documents produced by the Regime.

William Wiley spoke to Sky News following the fall of the Syrian Regime and the flight of Assad and his senior-most officials from Syria.

The Guardian | Julian Borger and Harry Davies spoke with William Wiley, CIJA Executive Director on the justice opportunities and challenges in collecting evidence in Syria following the Regime’s fall.

The Annual Report charts CIJA’s contribution to the identification, apprehension and trial of eleven Syrian Regime and Da’esh suspects and the OPCW investigative report into the use of chemical weapons by Da’esh in Marea in 2015.

The Commission for International Justice and Accountability joins with its partners, former Iraqi team members and affected communities to commemorate the horrific attack unleashed by Da’esh against the Yezidi minority and their ancestral homeland of Sinjar, in Northern Iraq, which began ten years ago today.

Samir Ousman al-Sheihk ran the notorious Adra prison (2005-2008) before Assad appointed him Governor of Deir ez-Zor and Head of its Security Committee (2011).

Featuring interviews with Bill Wiley, Chris Engels and Stephen Rapp, part 2 of this film follows the preparation of two extra-territorial cases of Syrian Regime atrocities.

AFP report on the start of the French criminal trial against high ranking Syrian officials for the detention, enforced disappearance and killing of Patrick and Mazeen Dabbagh.

As the trial against top Syrian Regime officials begins in France for their role in the detention, enforced disappearance and killing of Patrick and Mazeen Dabbagh.

The New National coverage of the start of the French trial against high ranking Syrian officials for the detention, enforced disappearance and killing of Patrick and Mazeen Dabbagh and CIGE’s evidence collection.

أصبحت تقارير لجنة العدالة الدولية و المساءلة (CIJA) المبنيّة على الأدلة، التي تفصّل الردّ الوحشي الذي انتهجه النظام السوري في مواجهة المظاهرات السلمية، متاحة للتنزيل الآن وباللغتَين العربية و الإنجليزية.

Today CIJA releases its latest evidence-based report, detailing how the Syrian Regime’s command and control mechanisms orchestrated a matrix of mass arrests, torture, enforced disappearance and murders.

CIJA Director of External Relations, Nerma Jelacic describes the Syrian Regime’s command and control structures and how they were mobilized with brutal and deadly force to repress protests…

https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2023/12/18/we-know-who-created-syrias-torture-programme-and-how

[The New Yorker] “When Mustafa died, in the earthquakes in Turkey, his work in Syria had assisted in the prosecutions of numerous figures in Bashar al-Assad’s regime.”

Homs was at the heart of the Syrian revolution, serving as an example and inspiration to Syrians across the country. People from different walks of life, ethnicities and religious groups came together to call for the fall of the Assad Regime.