Syria’s new authorities launched an operation in a stronghold of ousted president Bashar al-Assad on Thursday.
Bullet holes deface a mural depicting the toppled Syrian president Bashar al-Assad in Adra town on the northeastern outskirts of Damascus on December 25, 2024. The rally was held by families of soldiers in the former Syrian army who reportedly fled to Iraq as an Islamist-led rebel alliance ousted president Bashar al-Assad in December 2024, were detained by rebels upon their return, and are currently held in the Adra prison facility.
With 500,000 dead in the war and more than 100,000 missing, the new authorities have also pledged justice for the victims of abuses under the deposed ruler. The Britain-based monitor said the wanted man, Mohammed Kanjo Hassan, was a military justice official who had “issued death sentences and arbitrary judgements against thousands” of detainees at the notorious Saydnaya prison complex.The Saydnaya complex, the site of extrajudicial executions, torture and forced disappearances, epitomised the atrocities committed against Assad’s opponents.
World powers and international organisations have called for the urgent establishment of mechanisms for accountability. On Thursday, the information ministry introduced a ban on publishing or distributing “any content or information with a sectarian nature aimed at spreading division and discrimination”.
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