
U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia
07 August 2025
Transcript of Evidentiary Hearing
08 August 2025
Judge’s Order Granting of Motion for Default Judgement [reasoned opinion is forthcoming]
06 January 2022 (made public on 10 April 2023)
Complaint (English)
Complaint (unofficial Arabic translation)
20 December 2024
Plaintiff’s Motion for Default Judgment (English)
Memorandum of Law in Support of Plaintiff’s Motion for Default Judgment (English)
Memorandum of Law in Support of Plaintiff’s Motion for Default Judgment (unofficial Arabic translation)
Fact Witnesses
- Declaration of Obada Mzaik (English)
1a. Declaration of Obada Mzaik (unofficial Arabic translation) - Declaration of “Bulldozer Driver”
- Declaration of “Gravedigger” (English and Arabic)
- Declaration of Mazen Darwish (English)
4a. Declaration of Mazen Darwish (unofficial Arabic translation) - Declaration of Mahmoud Hamoud
5a. Declaration of Mahmoud Hamoud (unofficial Arabic translation) - Declaration of Yaman Al-Qadri
6a. Declaration of Yaman Al-Qadri (unofficial Arabic translation) - Declaration of Hanadi Zahlout (English and Arabic)
- Declaration of Mohammad Munir Al-Fakir (English and Arabic)
- Declaration of Mohammed Ali Ibrahim Al-Najjar (English and Arabic)
- Declaration of Abdullah Hamid Al-Abdullah (English and Arabic)
- Declaration of Safouh Muhammad Halema (English and Arabic)
- Declaration of Saber Suleiman Hamada (English and Arabic)
- Declaration of Samir Muhiddin Al-Saadi (English and Arabic)
- Declaration of Hassan Ahsoon (English and Arabic)
- Declaration of “SCM-SLP-CJA-AFI-MB-T-011” (English and Arabic)
- Declaration of Mohamed Osama Nassar (English and Arabic)
- Declaration of Osama Sawan (English and Arabic)
- Declaration of Ahmad Quraitem (English and Arabic)
- Declaration of Ahmad Mohammad Salim Buqai (English and Arabic)
- Declaration of Ahmad Abu Al-Kas (English and Arabic)
- Declaration of Ahmad Maatouq (English and Arabic)
- Declaration of Firas Al-Barjas (English and Arabic)
- Declaration of Kamal Fares (English and Arabic)
- Declaration of “SCM-SLP-CJA-AFI-MB-T-020” (English and Arabic)
- Declaration of Raghda Awad (English and Arabic)
- Declaration of Taymaa Muhiddin (English and Arabic)
- Declaration of “SCM-SLP-CJA-AFI-MB-T-023”
- Declaration of Ibrahim Al-Sheikh Hussein (English and Arabic)
- Declaration of “SJAC.W002” (English and Arabic)
- Declaration of “SJAC.W004” (English and Arabic)
- Declaration of “SJAC.W005” (English and Arabic)
- Declaration of “SJAC.W006”
- Declaration of Walid Al-Aashban bin Abdullah (English and Arabic)
- Declaration of Osama Natouf bin Ibrahim (English and Arabic)
- Declaration of “SJAC.W009” (English and Arabic)
Expert Witnesses
- Expert Report of Jaber Baker and Uğur Ümit Üngör (English)
1a. Expert Report of Jaber Baker and Uğur Ümit Üngör (unofficial Arabic translation) - Expert Report of Bernard Duhaime (English)
2a. Expert Report of Bernard Duhaime (unofficial Arabic translation) - Expert Report of Dr. Claudio Grossman (English)
3a. Expert Report of Dr. Claudio Grossman (unofficial Arabic translation) - Expert Report of Dr. Pau Pérez-Sales (English)
4a. Expert Report of Dr. Pau Pérez-Sales (unofficial Arabic translation) - Expert Report of Joumana Seif (with declarations of Yassin al-Haj Saleh, Maryam Al-Hallak, and Yasmin Al-Mashan) (English, with internal declaration in Arabic)
5a. Expert Report of Joumana Seif (unofficial Arabic translation)
Motion Exhibits
- Report of the UN International, Impartial and Independent Mechanism (IIIM), The Syrian Government Detention System as a Tool of Violent Repression (Dec. 6, 2024)
1a. Report of the UN International, Impartial and Independent Mechanism (IIIM), The Syrian Government Detention System as a Tool of Violent Repression (Dec. 6, 2024) (official IIIM Arabic translation)