Syria

National jurisdiction · as of 2026-09-07

Syria's Child Rights Law (Law No. 21 of 2021) prohibits an operator of an establishment providing internet access service from allowing a child to access pornographic or indecent websites, backed by imprisonment and a fine, and separately directs the State to take measures preventing children's access to violence-inciting, hateful, or pornographic websites generally, a duty that runs to the State rather than to a service provider.

The same Law requires every producer or broadcaster of media material to state the age category the material is directed at, a general media-labeling duty that is not scoped to an online, app, or platform service and is not recorded as an instrument here. No social-media minor-access restriction, app-store age-verification requirement, or age-appropriate design code was found.

Syria's Cybercrime Law (Law No. 20 of 2022), read through a Syrian human-rights organization's article-by-article legal analysis quoting the Law's definitions and principal offences, and the Media Law (Legislative Decree No. 108 of 2011, read in full for this jurisdiction's other law topics), both contain no provision addressing minors, age verification, or a service's duty toward a child user.