The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights is a UK-based group opposed to the rule of Syrian president Bashar al-Assad, purporting to be a human rights organisation.
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The group was created to oppose Assads rule and bring information from Syria to the outside world. They have extensive contacts throughout Syria, often informing major news outlets of goings-on in the country's uprising in 2011, including the deaths of protesters, as well as defected and loyalist soldiers.[1][2] The group only reports on alleged human rights violations committed by the Syrian government, not on possible human rights violations by the opposition.
According to their website, the group has the following aims : "The Syrian Human Rights Information Link (SHRIL) is primarily interested in gathering and distributing information about human rights violations in Syria. Consolidating information from various sources such as news reports, other groups and directly affected victims of human rights abuses, the objective is to have a single comprehensive database which can act as a focal point for research and activism. The objective is to make it easier for interested parties, both individuals and human rights groups, both in Syria and abroad, to find the relevant facts, to assist their research and to act as an informative conduit through a common knowledge base. "[3]