Despite the fall of the Assad regime and the liberation of most Syrian regions on December 8, 2024, the people of Afrin remain unable to celebrate a true sense of freedom. Since the Syrian National Army (SNA) factions assumed control in March 2018, violations have become a grim fixture of daily life, especially in areas governed by the Sultan Suleiman …
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The Afrin region, northwestern Syria, renowned for its ancient olive trees and as one of Syria’s leading olive-producing areas, has become a landscape of suffering for its residents. Since 2018, when factions of the Turkish-backed Syrian National Army (SNA) seized control of the area, the local population has endured escalating hardships. Systematic extortion, arrests, and economic exploitation have compounded their …
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أطلقت منظمة العفو الدولية حملة تدعو إلى وضع حد لانتهاكات حقوق الإنسان المستمرة في شمال غرب سوريا، وتحديداً في منطقة عفرين، التي تسيطر عليها الفصائل المسلحة التابعة للجيش الوطني السوري المدعوم من تركيا. تحت عنوان “يجب على تركيا وقف انتهاكات حقوق الإنسان في شمال غرب سوريا”. جاءت هذه الحملة في ظل تصاعد التوترات والانتهاكات الممنهجة ضد المدنيين في المنطقة. الحملة، …
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On August 19, 2024, within the “Aram” project to integrate the displaced community into the host community, and with the support of the Civil Society Center in Qamishli, the Lelun Association for Victims held a dialogue session on “The reality of Afrin’s displaced people in the host community… Challenges and ways to mitigate them.” The session included a number of …
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On 14th May 2024, the CEASEFIRE Center for Civilian Rights and the Kurdish “YASA” Center for Human Rights Studies and Legal Consultations issued a detailed report on the violations to which civilians are exposed in the Afrin region by armed factions affiliated the Turkish-backed Syrian National Army under the title “Escalating human rights violations in Syria’s Afrin”. The report was …
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On 20th April 2024, the administration of Al-Rai Prison informed the families of the detained Kurdish citizen, “Jangin Othman Naasan” 36, from the “Ruta/Al-Mazoula” village in the Maabatli/Mobata district. His family – his grandmother in the “Gazeah” village near Afrin city center to receive his body from the hospital in Al-Rai town in the eastern countryside of Aleppo, where he …
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A video clip on 6th April 2024 showed details of the crime of attacking an elderly Kurdish man named “Farid Suleiman Hasso” 60, and his son “Muhammed Hasso” 15, from Kakhreh/Yakhour village in Maabatli district of Afrin by two displaced shepherds and members of the military headquarters of the Al-Hamza Division (Al-Hamzat) on its land near the Gawrekan/ Gawreka village …
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The series of violations against the indigenous people of Afrin and their property continues by various armed factions in the villages and cities of the Afrin region. These violations may vary depending on the rich agricultural seasons in the region. The months of February and March 2024 witnessed many arrests in various places in the villages and districts of the …
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The “PEL – Civil Waves” organization issued a research report on HLP rights violations. They published it on 30th March 2024, entitled: “Theft of property as one of the tools of forced displacement in the Afrin, Tal Abyad, and Sere Kaniye/Ras al-Ain (Northern Syria)”. The report addressed HLP rights violations in both the Afrin region since March 2018 and the …
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The Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Syrian Arab Republic issued its report on 9th February 2024, which consists of 48 pages and covers the period from 1st July to 31st December 2023. The period during which the Syrian Arab Republic witnessed the greatest escalation of actions hostility during that period, according to what the committee stated in its …
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