Ministry of Justice Office Sets up Violations Documentation Centre in Idlib

Fayez Daher, Minister of Justice in the Syrian interim government, issued a decree to open a center tasked with documenting the violations against human right in rural Idlib, including forced disappearance, arbitrary detention, documenting the death toll, injuries and assessing material damage. The Minister of Justice commissioned Mohamed Nur Hamidi to headed the center and to begin carrying out the tasks incurred to him in the town of Harim in rural Idlib according to the mechanism used in the centers set up earlier by the Ministry in the provinces of Aleppo, Hasaka and Daraa and several other cities in the liberated areas.  Documentations is carried out by teams that depend on eyewitness accounts and conduct medical and technical expertise according to legal standards. The center will also raise awareness of the importance of reestablishing the concept of the state and the need for a governing law for people’s daily lives. The Ministry of Justice had earlier launched  “The Documentation Project” in Syria and in refugee camps abroad. Daher pointed out that his ministry relies on reports submitted by the documentation centers, and is preparing the files that document the crimes of the Assad regime as a prelude to refer perpetrators of these crimes to specialized courts. Daher also met with Turkey’s custodian of Syrian refugees in Turkey who which pledged to create the Department of Immigration of the Turkish Ministry of Interior with the aim of monitoring and improving the living conditions of the Syrian refugees. Daher added that they also discussed the importance of the role of the Syrian interim government in alleviating the suffering of the Syrian people in Turkey and neighboring countries. (Source: Syrian Coalition)