{"id":15836,"date":"2025-07-22T09:56:26","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T09:56:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/achrights.org\/?p=15836"},"modified":"2025-07-22T10:08:41","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T10:08:41","slug":"press-release-on-the-escalation-of-armed-conflict-in-sweida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/achrights.fr\/en\/2025\/07\/22\/15836\/","title":{"rendered":"Press Release on the Escalation of Armed Conflict in Sweida"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Access Center for Human Rights (ACHR) raises deep concern over the escalating armed conflict in Sweida and condemns grave human rights violations \u2014 including hostage-taking, extrajudicial killings, attacks on residential areas, and destruction of civilian property.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>ACHR unequivocally condemns all parties involved in the violence, warns against the use of sectarian rhetoric to justify foreign interference, and denounces the Syrian Transitional Government\u2019s failure to protect civilians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>ACHR also reiterates its condemnation of Israel\u2019s repeated airstrikes on Syria and calls for urgent international action to stop these violations and ensure civilian protection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Center affirms that the escalation of violence in Syria, alongside ongoing violations against Syrian refugees in Lebanon \u2014 including arbitrary arrests and forced deportations \u2014 are two sides of the same crisis that demand serious international action to uphold human dignity and rights.<br><br>To read the full press statement:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div data-wp-interactive=\"core\/file\" class=\"wp-block-file\"><object data-wp-bind--hidden=\"!state.hasPdfPreview\" hidden class=\"wp-block-file__embed\" data=\"https:\/\/achrights.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Press-Release.pdf\" type=\"application\/pdf\" style=\"width:100%;height:600px\" aria-label=\"Embed of Press Release.\"><\/object><a id=\"wp-block-file--media-e351c157-6633-476d-88f1-1bebbac100f7\" href=\"https:\/\/achrights.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Press-Release.pdf\">Press Release<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/achrights.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Press-Release.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button wp-element-button\" download aria-describedby=\"wp-block-file--media-e351c157-6633-476d-88f1-1bebbac100f7\">Download<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Access Center for Human Rights (ACHR) raises deep concern over the escalating armed conflict in Sweida and condemns grave human rights violations \u2014 including hostage-taking, extrajudicial killings, attacks on residential areas, and destruction of civilian property. ACHR unequivocally condemns all parties involved in the violence, warns against the use of sectarian rhetoric to justify [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":15834,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[226],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-15836","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-position-papers-and-statements-en"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/achrights.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/achrights.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/achrights.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/achrights.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/achrights.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15836"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/achrights.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15842,"href":"https:\/\/achrights.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15836\/revisions\/15842"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/achrights.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/achrights.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/achrights.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/achrights.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}