UN experts raise concern over increasing enforced disappearances in Syria

The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) expressed concern over reports about dozens of abductions and enforced disappearances in Syria during a press briefing on Friday. In his statement, spokesperson Thameen Al-Keetan stated that OHCHR documented at least 97 people missing since the ousting of former president Assad. He also stressed the obligations of all armed actors to abide by international human rights law and international humanitarian law.

The warning highlights that nearly a year after the fall of the former government, dozens of new cases of abductions and disappearances are being reported, adding to the more than 100,000 people who went missing during the Assad regime, a figure documented in numerous UN reports, including from the Independent