GICJ Oral Statement with Meezaan Centre for Human Rights

By Sarah Tayara

On June 29, 2022, at the 50th session of the Human Rights Council, Mr Paulo Sergio Pinheiro, the Chair of the Commission of Inquiry (COI) on Syria, gave an oral update on the human rights situation in the country. With humanitarian needs at their highest ever, escalating violence and food insecurity, and the Security Council discussing closing off the last remaining humanitarian aid border, Syrians face an abyss of unimaginable levels of pain and suffering.

In an oral statement, delivered by Sarah Tayara on behalf of Geneva International Centre for Justice (GICJ) and Meezaan Centre for Human Rights, called upon all parties to immediately release all arbitrarily detained civilians. We support the commission’s recommendation for the establishment of an international mechanism for locating those arbitrarily detained and reuniting them with their loved ones. Arbitrary detentions are a stain on the conscience of both the Syrian authorities and the international community. We must act now on behalf of tens of thousands of Syrian victims which have been left to fall through the cracks of the brutal conflict.

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