The Syrian Future Movement has reviewed the report issued by the Syrian Network for Human Rights on November 2, 2025, which documented at least 197 cases of arbitrary arrest and detention during October of this year. This is a dangerous indicator of the continued grave human rights violations in Syria despite the ongoing political transformations.
While expressing its deep concern regarding the continuation of this pattern of practices, the Syrian Future Movement believes that arbitrary arrest—regardless of the perpetrator or the pretext—constitutes a national and humanitarian crime that must be explicitly and unequivocally criminalized in all future Syrian laws. It is a direct violation of human dignity and the citizen’s right to freedom and personal security.
The Syrian Future Movement affirms that the new Syria cannot be built on the logic of force or revenge, but rather on justice, the rule of law, and the independence of the judiciary. Building trust between citizens and the state requires ending all forms of detention outside of judicial procedures, releasing all those arbitrarily detained, and opening accountability and redress files in accordance with the standards of transitional justice.
The Syrian Future Movement emphasizes that the phenomenon of arbitrary arrest is no longer confined to a single entity, but has spread to various regions of the country and under multiple authorities. This imposes a general national responsibility to criminalize this practice by all influential forces, without exception, considering it a direct threat to any national project seeking to rebuild the Syrian state on the foundations of citizenship, dignity, and freedom.
The Syrian Future Movement calls upon national bodies, human rights organizations, and civil society to unite their efforts towards a national charter for dignity and freedom. This charter should establish clear standards for protecting citizens from arbitrary arrest and enforced disappearance, and lay the foundation for a new political phase in which security is not a tool of oppression, but rather a guarantee of a safe and free life for all Syrians.
The Syria of the future that we aspire to is a state where free speech is not feared, opinions are not imprisoned, and human beings are not oppressed. Instead, it is a state built on trust, justice, knowledge, and citizenship.
