Investigators race to secure evidence of atrocities by Syria’s Assad regime
Financial Times | William Wiley spoke to the Financial Times about the challenges Syrians face in preserving evidence for overall accountability efforts:
“While it’s perfectly understandable that distressed families rushed in to try and find their loved ones, it’s going to make it that much harder for the overall mission of accountability if we lose key pieces of evidence”.
What lies ahead for Assad loyalists?
TRT World | Nerma Jelacic spoke to TRT World about the importance of preserving the huge amounts of evidence that is now available, in order that it may support future accountability efforts.
Syrerne vil have al-Assad og andre dømt. Men vejen til retfærdighed kan blive lang og trang
Information | [Danish + English] Legal experts and human rights groups fear that documents from prisons and institutions could be compromised by the media and victims’ relatives. Uncertainty looms over a forthcoming legal reckoning.
Will Assad be brought to justice?
BBC | Owen Bennet Jones spoke to Stephen Rapp, CIJA Commissioner about the prospects of Assad facing justice: "We should never say never. Milosevic, Taylor, Mladic & others thought they would escape justice & eventually countries surrendered these butchers to face justice".
Mass graves found near Syria’s capital could contain thousands of bodies
Mass graves found near Syria’s capital could contain thousands of bodies
Justice for the victims of Assad’s atrocities in Syria
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.
“In Bananenkisten versteckt und zur Grenze gefahren“: Wie Anwälte in Syrien Assads Verbrechen dokumentieren
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.
‘Bigger than Nuremberg’: the secret files that could jail Assad
The Times | Christina Lamb spoke to William Wiley on the scale of the Assad regime’s machinery of death, spanning more than 50 years.
Rights Groups See a Chance to Seek Justice for Syrian Regime’s Victims
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.
‘The worst atrocities of the 21st century’ were committed in Syria, says former U.S. war crimes official
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.
Sky News | Mark Austin interview with CIJA Executive Director
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.
Syrian leader offers reward for details of Assad officials involved in war crimes
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.
CIJA’s Annual Report 2023-24 Published
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.
Reflecting on the Yezidi Genocide: A Decade Later
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.
Senior Regime figure arrested by US authorities
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).
The Lost Souls of Syria – Part 2
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.
France begins its first war crimes trial of Syrian officials
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.
Nerma Jelacic speaks to France 24 on CIJA’s role in fighting impunity
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.
Senior Syrian intelligence officers face war crimes trial
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 والمساءلة متاحة للتنزيل
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.