Syria: First Trial of Bashar Al-Assad Regime's Crimes Opens in Aleppo

First Public Trial Session for Coastal Violations Concludes in Aleppo

In a landmark moment for Syria’s emerging judicial reckoning, the inaugural public session of trials concerning serious violations committed during the March 2025 coastal unrest concluded at noon on Tuesday at Aleppo’s Palace of Justice. It marks the first occasion on which individuals linked to state institutions have appeared in open court for such offences. Fourteen defendants stood before the bench, including former regime loyalists and curr…

Syria Opens First Trial Over Coastal Violence After Assad's Fall

First trial of coastal massacre suspects underway in Syria

The first trial of more than a dozen suspects linked to March's violence on the Syrian coast, which saw hundreds of people killed, commenced on Tuesday at the Palace of Justice in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo. The session was broadcast live on Syria’s state news channel Al-Ikhbariya Al-Souriya, in what appears to be an attempt to bring some transparency to the proceedings. The violence began on 6 March last year when supporters of the regi…

Syria opens first trial over coastal violence after Assad's fall

ALEPPO, Syria/AMMAN - Syria on Tuesday began the first trial of suspects in a wave of bloodshed in March during which pro-government fighters killed hundreds of members of the Alawite minority - a case seen as a test of President Ahmed al-Sharaa's promise of accountability. Read more at straitstimes.com.