A National Commission for Missing Persons has been gathering evidence of enforced disappearances under Bashar Assad, but it has yet to offer families any clues on the estimated 150,000 people who vanished in his prisons. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/09/world/syria-detainee-families/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #syria #basharassad
A year after Assad's fall, families of missing detainees languish without answers

As Syria marks a year since Bashar Assad's downfall, many people remain exhausted by the same burden that plagued them under his rule: the lack of closure.

The Japan Times