The Laws Introduced by the Syrian Regime to Control Real Estate Ownership and Lands Before and Since the Beginning of the Popular Uprising in March 2011
Source ID
SRC-045
Citation
The Laws Introduced by the Syrian Regime to Control Real Estate Ownership and Lands Before and Since the Beginning of the Popular Uprising in March 2011
URL or path
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Type
Human rights documentation report
Hierarchy tier
6
Accessed
2026-08-10
Snapshot
Supplied by the author 10 August 2026. 61 pages, text layer present. Opened only far enough to establish scope and to rule it out for Chapter 2
Status
READ
Version history
The register keeps changing after the book is fixed in print. Each entry below was added to this row in the order shown.
READ AT THE TAXONOMY AND THE LAW SECTIONS 16 August 2026, and it is the Chapter 4 document. It was supplied on 10 August 2026, opened only far enough to rule it out for Chapter 2, and sat PARTIAL for six days. WHAT IT IS: Syrian Network for Human Rights, 25 May 2023, reference R230415, 61 pages. TIER 6, human rights documentation. It is an ACCOUNT OF THE LAWS AND NOT THE LAWS, and Chapter 1 has promised that Chapter 4 sets out 'what each provides', so provisions taken from here are attributed to this report and not to the statute. ITS TAXONOMY IS THE CHAPTER'S SPINE and no other held document has it. Section IV covers redevelopment: Law 25 of 2011, Legislative Decree 66 of 2012, Law 23 of 2015, Law 10 of 2018, Legislative Decree 237 of 2021 on al-Qaboun and Harasta. Section V covers transactions and registries: Law 11 of 2011, Legislative Decree 43 of 2011 on border areas, Legislative Decree 11 of 2016 suspending registration of proprietary rights, Legislative Decree 12 of 2016 giving the digital cadastre evidential character, Law 33 of 2017 on reconstituting a missing or destroyed real estate document. Section VI includes LAW 31 OF 2018 REGULATING THE MINISTRY OF ENDOWMENT AS THIS RELATES TO REAL ESTATE OWNERSHIP, which joins directly to the waqf episode the brief calls the chapter's strongest case. ON DECREE 66, VERBATIM: 'Promulgated on September 18, 2012, this is arguably the most dangerous law in this field to be adopted by the regime at its time', and it was 'the first one to address the real estate ownership issue after the popular uprising devolved into an internal armed conflict'. ON LAW 10 ARTICLE 54: a fund for reconstruction in the redevelopment area, financed from profits and fees imposed on the owners and from the profits yielded from their properties, with the Minister of Local Administration authorising committee compensation paid out of the same fund. IT CITES THE PRIMARY TEXT AND THE CITATION IS DEAD: footnote 17 gives http://www.parliament.gov.sy/arabic/index.php?node=201&nid=19313 for Article 2 of Law 10. See SRC-097.
PRIOR: RETIERED 11 August 2026 under D-028 against EVIDENCE_PROTOCOL's six-level source hierarchy. The previous value was an ad hoc quality score on an undocumented scale. Tier now records SOURCE TYPE only; how far this project has checked the document is the Status column. Previous value: tier 3. NOT A CHAPTER 2 DOCUMENT. Supplied in the same batch as the Chapter 2 material, and checked in case it carried the 2010 budget law. It does not: searched 37 of 2009, No. 37, 754 and budget, zero occurrences of each. IT IS A CHAPTER 4 DOCUMENT, on title, land and legitimacy. Its stated subject is the property laws before and since March 2011 and it frames them as targeting forcibly displaced persons. Chapter 4's brief covers Laws 10 of 2018, 66 of 2012 and 3 of 2018. Registered now so it is not mistaken for unread material later, and marked PARTIAL because only its scope has been established. It was to be read properly before Chapter 4 was drafted, AND IT WAS, on 16 August 2026, six days after this sentence was written. It is an advocacy document, so its characterisations are evidence of what it argues rather than findings