Huda Abuzeid

Eid Mubarak

Will the unbearable noise of the omnipresent drones also cease, allowing Gaza some genuine respite?

Inside Bashar Assad's detention centers, where 'death was the least bad thing' The system of detention, torture and death run by Syria’s former ruler, Bashar Assad, is starting to come out into the open.

A tour of Assad’s torture dungeons, by Sarah El Deeb and Malak Harb: apnews.com/article/syri... @apnews.com @seldeeb.bsky.social

After years of requests, the IIIM is finally able to visit Syria. Eight years to the day it was created. iiim.un.org/head-of-syri...

1/🚨We’ve waited too long.WE WANT THEM NOW.🚨The release of detainees in #Syria must come with immediate action to locate,document,and protect all those still imprisoned.The @icrc.org and the International Committee of the Red Cross in Syria must act NOW to fulfill its mandate. Here’s what’s needed:🧵

Dawn in Damascus In the end, Bashar al-Assad had nothing to say to the country he bludgeoned and bled, but what matters now is that his ‘forever’ rule is over

Dawn in Damascus by @kshaheen.bsky.social will make you cry

Thinking of Marie today, the best of us. This is your victory too. #Syria

5/ Today, to further support efforts and assist newer Syrian civil society groups and individuals, IIIM released key guidelines on preserving vital physical and digital evidence, including “collecting, preserving and protection checklist” in Arabic and English, attached below.

As Syria’s notorious prisons empty, families search for the missing Tens of thousands of Syrians disappeared into Assad’s network of brutal prisons. After his downfall, families are finally hoping for news of their loved ones.

There was no place more feared in Assad’s Syria than Sednaya Military Prison. By Sunday, the guards had fled, its doors were flung open and this fortress of terrified silence was alive with the sounds of parents and children calling out for their missing. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/1...