Human Rights in Syria during Bashar al-Asad

Report: Human Rights in Syria during Bashar al-Asad’s First Ten Years in Power

Tags: Syria , Civil Society in West Asia

This 35-page report by Human Rights Watch (July 16, 2010) reviews al-Asad's human rights record in five key areas: repression of political and human rights activism; restrictions on freedom of expression; torture; treatment of the Kurds; and Syria's legacy of enforced disappearances. The verdict is bleak.

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