If States Follow Urging By UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet To Adopt Germany’s Universal Jurisdiction Model The word “historic” has been liberally used to describe the conviction in the Higher Regional Court in the German town of Koblenz of one of President Bashar al-Assad’s many intelligence officers…

And how is that consistent with protecting journalists the theme of the opening session of his “summit for democracy”? The opening session of President Joe Biden ‘summit for democracy’ was about the media and how to protect journalists facing torture, disappearance and death at the hands of dictators that seek…

The Nazis called the Jews rats during the Holocaust. The Hutus called the Tutsis cockroaches as it carried out the Rwandan genocide. The Assad regime also adopts the language of genocide and offers a chilling reminder Syria unsafe and not only for returning refugees on the eve of yet another…

A passionate belief in non-violence following Martin Luther King inspired Amina Khoulani to become part of Syria’s peaceful uprising in 2011 and paid a terrible price with her family losing three brothers in Assad’s torture prisons and now a leading human rights defender for the disappeared We were only speaking…

Filmmaker Ronan Tynan currently completing ‘BRINGING ASSAD TO JUSTICE’ with Anne Daly listened to the UN Syria Envoy at the IIEA this week and was very troubled he seemed unable to recognise the true nature of the Assad regime, especially when the reports of the UN’s own Commission of Inquiry…

Filmmaker Ronan Tynan currently completing ‘BRINGING ASSAD TO JUSTICE’ with Anne Daly remembers the chilling evidence of the grave digger at the trial of two of Assad’s agents in Koblenz, Germany for crimes against humanity after listening to the Branch 251 podcast on Holocaust Memorial Day. Syria is the Holocaust…

Antony Blinken the step son of a Nazi Holocaust survivor and the incoming US secretary of state offers some hope he might at a minimum put the holocaust of our time in Syria back on the agenda because in a recent interview he appeared to express some contrition for the…

What was remarkable about Thursday’s (23 July, 2020) meeting of the UN Security Council is that for the first time the continuing fate of the tens of thousands who are detained, disappeared and in almost all cases tortured (and in many instances tortured to death) in Syria was the only…

— If you have ever said anything anywhere that might offend the CCP stay out of Hong Kong Chinese president Xi Jinping’s threats to extend his CCP (Chinese Communist Party) dictatorship to Hong Kong in the face of mass public protests for freedom and democracy has finally acted with the…