Syrians Seek UN Rights Ruling Against Russia for 2019 Hospital Attacks
Open Society Justice Initiative Files Complaint to the UN Human Rights Committee

GlobeNewswire

May 02, 2024



New York, May 02, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Russian Federation has been accused before the UN Human Rights Committee in Geneva of carrying out a deliberate attack on a hospital in Syria—in a legal action that highlights Moscow’s repeated use of military force against health care facilities in Syria, where its forces have been supporting the regime of President Bashar al-Assad. A complaint before the Committee, filed on May 1, focuses on a series of air strikes on Kafr Nabl Surgical Hospital in Idlib province on May 5, 2019.

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