The central bar of Syria, located in the center of Damascus, is teeming with lawyers. After the fall of Bashar Al-Assad on December 8, 2024, it took less than ten days for the new Syrian power led by the Islamists of Hayat Tahrir Al-Sham (HTC) to renew the council of order. Under the leadership of President Ahmed Mohamed Al-Douran, the eleven members of the Free Order Council, which had been operating since 2017 under the authority of HTC in the province of Idlib, in the northwest of the country, were dispatched in Damascus to replace the old council, elected under the supervision of the Baath, the former single party now dissolved.
“We came here, on the orders of the revolution, to bring down the Al-Assad regime and the council of order. The majority of its former members are criminals, corrupt people, who were appointed by the Baath Party. We have frozen their work until the end of the investigations concerning them”says Iskander Hussein, a lawyer from Maarat Al-Numan and one of the members of the new bar, which represents the 55,000 lawyers practicing in Syria. At the back of his office is a single bed where he now spends his nights, far from his family back in Idlib.
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