Syria

Ireland and other European countries cannot leave Syrian asylum seekers in "indefinite limbo", the European human rights commissioner Michael O'Flaherty has warned. The Department of Justice said this week that the International Protection Office (IPO) would "temporarily pause the issuing of final d

Ireland has temporarily paused decisions on asylum applications from Syrians following the end of Bashar al-Assad's rule over the country. The Department of Justice said the International Protection Office (IPO) would "temporarily pause the issuing of final determinations while the situation in Syri

Rights organisations have welcomed the dramatic overthrow of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad as an opportunity to "chart a new future built on justice, accountability, and respect for human rights". Assad is said to have fled to Russia on Sunday as various paramilitary forces reached Damascus less t

Syria stands accused of torturing tens of thousands of its citizens and maintaining a system of "abhorrent treatment", according to arguments at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in the first international case over the Syrian civil war. The case has been brought to the ICJ by both Canada and

France violated the rights of French women it refuses to repatriate from detention camps in north-east Syria, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has ruled. In yesterday's Grand Chamber judgment, the court held by a majority that there had been a violation of Article 3 § 2 of Protocol No

A former Syrian official has been convicted in Germany of being an accomplice to crimes against humanity in an unprecedented case. Eyad al-Gharib, 44, was one of two former Syrian intelligence officers charged by German prosecutors last year under the principle of universal jurisdiction. The other w