News and Insights

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.

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.

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.

CIJA´s evidence-based reports detailing the Syrian Regime’s brutal response to the peaceful protests are now available for download in English and Arabic.

VRT: reporting on information from the public prosecutor’s office regarding the arrest of Hossin A., a former Syrian paramilitary leader, for charges of serious violations of international humanitarian law for crimes committed during the Syrian civil war, in Salamiyah, Hama.

On 22 January 2024, the District Court of the Hague convicted Mustafa A., a senior member of pro-Assad militia Liwa Al-Quds, for complicity in crimes against humanity & war crimes of torture, inhuman treatment and illegal arrest in the Al Nayrab Refugee Camp in Aleppo, marking the first conviction of pro-Assad militias for civilian atrocities.

Suspected ISIS member, Mustafa M was indicted in Koblenz, Germany for alleged War Crimes including killing and hostage taking. The Commission for International Justice and Accountability located Mustafa M., who is a Syrian national, within Germany in 2020, developing and pro-actively submitting a suspect dossier to national authorities.

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

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.

[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.”

Exclusive CNN report by Mick Krever and Jomana Karadsheh on CCTV footage collected and analysed by CIJA