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The Syrian government has released more than 500 prisoners detained during pro-democracy demonstrations in the last month, Syria's official news agency reported Thursday. The report indicated that the government released 265 prisoners on May 5 and another...

The UN Human Rights Council announced Wednesday that they will hold a special session this Friday to discuss the situation in Syria in light of last week's massacre ...

Most of the victims of a recent massacre in Houla, Syria , were shot at close range, including women and children, the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) revealed...

JURIST Contributing Editor Chibli Mallat of the University of Utah SJ Quinney College of Law says that there is no true legal distinction between liberators and occupiers, and that because it does not look like there will be a treaty...

Paulo Pinheiro, chairperson of the UN-appointed Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Syria, on Monday told the UN Human Right Council in Geneva that the number of people suffering from the intensified violence in Syria...

Over 80 percent of voters in Syria have voted to approve the new Syrian constitution , officials said Monday. The proposed constitution will impose term limits on the president as well as provide for a multi-party...

Syria held a referendum Sunday to vote on a new constitution . The gesture towards the opposition by President Bashar al-Assad has widely been seen as an empty one, with much of the international...

JURIST Guest Columnist John Quigley of the Ohio State University Moritz College of Law says that although the ICC may be reluctant to investigate the situation in Syria due to the difficult questions the Court would have to address, an...

The Syrian Arab News Agency on Monday published the country's new draft constitution , nearly one week before Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has scheduled a referendum on the constitution. The draft constitution...

The UN General Assembly voted on Thursday to condemn Syria through a non-binding resolution . The resolution supports a plan advanced by the Arab League that aims...