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.

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

أصبحت تقارير لجنة العدالة الدولية والمساءلة (CIJA) 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.

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.

Syria In Transition: Issue 9. Features CIJA’s evidence-based report "Behind the Curtain: Unravelling the bureaucracy of Syria's machinery of death" to reconstruct the chain of command at the time and place of major atrocities, concluding that “CIJA’s painstaking work reveals Assad as the pinnacle of all chains of command"

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.

Levant 24: "The CIJA has meticulously documented the systemic nature of the Assad regime’s human rights violations and illegal policies in a comprehensive report outlining the regime’s “machinery of death.”

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.

هذه قصة خنق النظام السوري لحمص، المدينة التي وُلدت من رحمها الثورة و التي أعطت كوكبة من الأبطال الذين بذلوا ارواحهم، و من بينهم مصطفى نائب قائد فريق التحقيقات بسيجا.

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.

[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

Al Jazeera coverage of “Assad’s Ghosts Unmasked”: “Last month, war crimes investigators concluded that the Syrian government had deployed “shabbiha”

Includes a summary of CIJA’s report on Syrian Regime paramilitaries “Assad’s Ghosts Unmasked” alongside updates of the International Court of Justice torture case

“Ces documents, écrits de la plume même du régime, sont la prevue qu’il s’est appuyé sur ses groups dès la premier jour réprimer les manifestations et écraser les rebelles”

“A new report, by the war crimes investigators of the Commission for International Justice and Accountability, documents how the highest levels of Syria’s Assad regime “

Documents secured by CIJA and produced by various Syrian State entities demonstrate the Regime’s incremental reliance on brutal paramilitary gangs to enforce the governments’ crackdown on peaceful protesters and later, to attack the civilian population.