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Today, Assad called on refugees to return because Syria is "in need of all of its children" enabbaladi.net/archives/282494
Statements like this, though, don't match up with the reality on the ground. At @TimepDC, we've been tracking the laws that make a safe return for many impossible.
Statements like this, though, don't match up with the reality on the ground. At @TimepDC, we've been tracking the laws that make a safe return for many impossible.
Syria's counter-terrorism law, for example, employs a vague definition of terrorism that has been used to arrest those who dissent peacefully against the regime, to try and sentence them as terrorists, and to confiscate their assets. timep.org/reports-briefi… via @TimepDC
Syrians are increasingly being stopped at checkpoints and rounded up for military service. Although Assad issued Decree 18 which allegedly grants amnesty to military deserters & draft dodgers, reports of conscription continue timep.org/reports-briefi… via @TimepDC
Syrians unable to claim their land and property under a wide set of housing, land, and property laws, including Law 10, may lose the rights to their homes entirely to a scheme that furthers the forced demographic change initiated by the war timep.org/reports-briefi… via @TimepDC
Conscription, terrorism trials, and land are only some of the many legal issues standing in the way of a safe & peaceful return for Syrians. This is a vital portfolio w/ human, legal, policy implications. Pay attn to it & follow outlets like @SyriaDirect which cover it regularly.
