(25 Mar 2025)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Damascus, Syria – 25 March 2025
1. Wide of Yasser Al-Farhan, spokesman for the committee tasked with investigating violence in coastal Syria, at news conference
2. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Yasser Al-Farhan, committee spokesman:
“In response to the painful events that took place on the Syrian coast on March 6th, 7th, and 8th, 2025, and the days that followed, and based on the decision of the President of the Syrian Arab Republic issued on March 9th, 2025, the committee has begun its work."
3. Close of Syrian flag
4. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Yasser Al-Farhan, committee spokesman:
“The committee moved to the field in the areas where the incidents occurred in Latakia Governorate. The committee conducted meetings with official civil, military, security, police, and judicial authorities in both joint and separate sessions, during which it listened to their testimonies and received the information it had requested from them."
5. Mid of cameraman
6. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Yasser Al-Farhan, committee spokesman:
“The committee met with hundreds of family members and witnesses, inspected nine sites where violations had occurred, listened to their accounts and stories, and documented the observations and findings it gathered on-site."
7. Wide of cameramen
8. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Yasser Al-Farhan, committee spokesman:
"At the committee’s center in the city of Latakia, four rooms were designated for interrogation and witness hearings. To date, more than 95 testimonies have been recorded in accordance with legal principles and standards, including provisions for those requesting witness protection measures."
9. Mid of cameraman
10. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Yasser Al-Farhan, committee spokesman:
"The Independent National Committee met with the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Syria, and the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, and the team of the UN Envoy to Syria as part of efforts to enhance international cooperation and benefit from available expertise and information."
11. Wide of reporter asking question
12. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Yasser Al-Farhan, committee spokesman:
"There is a welcoming response from UN commissions toward the committee’s work. The committee has also welcomed the cooperation with the UN in providing advice, expertise, and information."
13. Wide of conference
14. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Yasser Al-Farhan, committee spokesman:
“We entered all these areas. As we moved between villages and regions where attacks occurred against public security personnel, as well as areas where civilians were targeted, we noticed that the region was not safe. Our movements were based on the committee’s insistence and request. The protection teams accompanying us exercised extreme caution, repeatedly urging us to leave quickly, as armed groups, referred to as the remnants of the regime, were dispersed in the surrounding areas."
15. Wide of conference
STORYLINE:
The investigative committee tasked with inquiring into the revenge attacks on Syria’s coastal region said Tuesday they had listened to almost 100 testimonies and received dozens of written and recorded civilian and military statements.
The committee met with "official civil, military, security, police, and judicial authorities in both joint and separate sessions," as well as " hundreds of family members and witnesses," Yasser al-Farhan, the spokesperson for the committee, said at a news conference. He declined to elaborate on the committee’s findings so far.
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