Large marches against the government occurred despite an internet blackout and threats of a severe crackdown.
Bazaars were shuttered and demonstrators met with violence from security forces amid rising anger about the country’s dire economic situation.
Galloping inflation, a currency crisis and anger at the regime have fueled demonstrations across the country.
Thousands of documents and interviews with Assad-era officials reveal how the regime worked to conceal evidence of its atrocities during the Syrian civil war.
We documented how the dictator Bashar al-Assad and his henchmen conspired to hide evidence of torture and deaths of detainees during Syria’s long civil war.
The writer and lawyer has been documenting the occupation for decades. Somehow, he maintains hope.
Narges Mohammadi and several other Iranian activists were detained last Friday. She has been beaten, requiring emergency medical treatment, and accused of working with Israel, her family said.
The human rights activist was released on furlough from prison last year, but was detained again on Friday, along with several other human rights activists.
Fourteen people are on trial, charged with crimes related to an outbreak of sectarian violence under the new government. The abuses of the old Assad regime still await a reckoning.
More than 100,000 people disappeared during the civil war. To bring closure to some of their families, the new government faces the challenging task of exhuming remains from scores of burial sites.