The Prospects for Justice in Post-Assad Syria
Date and Time
May 22, 2025 6:30 pm
Location
14th & V
2021 14th St NW, Washington, District of Columbia, 20009
May 22, 2025 6:30 pm
14th & V
Join the Syria Justice and Accountability Centre (SJAC) at Busboys and Poets for “The Prospects for Justice in Post-Assad Syria,” an honest conversation with SJAC’s Executive Director, Mohammad Al-Abdallah, about Syria’s future after more than a decade of conflict.
The event will discuss major developments after the fall of Assad, including the formation of a new interim government, recent violence targeting the Alawite community, the impacts of ongoing sanctions, and Syria’s evolving diplomatic relations with the U.S. and the EU.
The discussion will also highlight SJAC’s recent efforts to collect and preserve over 400,000 documents from Assad Government intelligence facilities, document and protect mass graves across the country, and address the recent impacts of the foreign aid freeze.
The event will be moderated by Mai El-Sadany, Executive Director of the Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy (TIMEP).
About Mohammad Al-Abdallah
Mohammad is a human rights activist, former political prisoner, and survivor of torture who was imprisoned by the Assad government in 2005 and 2006 for his work defending human rights and lobbying for political reform. Mohammad has spent over a decade in the U.S. workingon documentation and justice issues related to Syria. He recently returned from his first visit to Syria in 17 years where he visited several former government intelligence branches, met with officials in the Ministry of Justice, and talked with families of missing persons in Damascus.
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About SJAC
The Syria Justice and Accountability Centre (SJAC) is a leading Syrian human rights organization working towards meaningful justice and accountability in Syria. Since 2012, SJAC has grown into a dynamic organization that documents human rights violations from all available sources, stores it in a secure database, catalogues it according to human rights standards, and analyzes it using legal expertise and big data methodologies.
About TIMEP
The Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy (TIMEP) is a non-profit (501(c)(3)) that works to center advocates and experts from and in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region in the policy discourse to foster transparent, accountable, and just societies.
Inspired by the changemakers who peacefully took to the streets in 2011 and who have continued to take to the streets, online, and in diaspora and exile since, TIMEP was founded in 2013 to carve out a space for those presenting alternate visions to address decades of status quo. TIMEP is headquartered in Washington, D.C. and has a network of fellows and partners based across the MENA region and around the world.
