A man, identified as 52-year-old Jawad al-Barouki, was killed on February 28, 2024, by indiscriminate gunfire from Syrian regime forces attempting to break up a demonstration by protestors who tried to enter a settlement center (a facility used by the regime to conduct official ‘settlements’ with citizens) in the center of Jawad’s home city of Suwayda. Another protester, Walid al-Jawhari, was also slightly injured in the same indiscriminate regime gunfire. The area is under the control of regime forces.
The Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) notes that, through this act of killing, Syrian regime forces have once again violated international human rights law, for which the perpetrators must be held accountable.
