Document Truth.
Demand Justice.
A powerful open source data management solution for human rights documentation. Easy to use interface, collaborative team features, advanced search, revision control, and full support for Arabic and Ukrainian languages.
Evidence-Grade Integrity
Every piece of documentation is preserved with cryptographic verification, full audit trails, and controlled access — built for legal admissibility.
File Integrity
MD5 checksums on every upload. Benetech video fingerprinting and automatic duplicate detection ensure nothing is altered or lost.
Complete Audit Trail
13 action types logged with user attribution and timestamps. Every create, update, delete, and export is recorded permanently.
Controlled Export
Requester-approver workflow for data exports. Encrypted downloads with configurable expiration ensure chain of custody.
Revision History
Full change tracking on every record with user attribution. Compare versions and rollback when needed.
Three Core Entities
Everything in Bayanat connects through three fundamental data types, enabling comprehensive documentation and powerful analysis.
Bulletins
Upload any piece of evidence: videos, photos, documents, interviews, or audio recordings. Each bulletin becomes a searchable, linkable record you can connect to the people and events involved.
- Media attachments
- Source tracking
- Verification workflow
Actors
Track the people and entities in your documentation: witnesses, victims, alleged perpetrators, military units, or Intelligence departments. Build profiles and map how they relate to each other and to specific events.
- Profile management
- Relationship mapping
- Role classification
Incidents
Bring it all together. Group related bulletins and actors into incidents to build a complete picture of an event; ready for export, reporting, or legal proceedings.
- Event timelines
- Multi-source linking
- Violation types
Everything Connected
Multiple relationship types link all entities together, enabling investigators to uncover patterns and build comprehensive cases.
Built for Serious Work
Enterprise-grade features designed for organizations documenting human rights violations.
Import from YouTube, Telegram & More
Paste a URL and Bayanat automatically downloads, archives, and catalogs video content. Metadata, channel info, and upload dates are extracted automatically. Supports 1,800+ platforms.
- Auto metadata extraction
- Duplicate detection
- Source & channel tracking
- Cookie auth support
AI Transcription
Powered by OpenAI Whisper. Auto-transcribe video and audio in multiple languages with timestamps. Makes all media fully searchable.
Enterprise Security
40+ granular permissions, WebAuthn/2FA, complete audit trails, and role-based access control for sensitive data.
Geospatial Analysis
PostGIS-powered mapping. Radius search, incident clustering, and geographic pattern analysis.
OCR & Document AI
Extract text from images, scanned documents, and PDFs with Tesseract OCR. Parse Word docs automatically.
Team Collaboration
Peer review workflows, team assignments, and collaborative editing with full change history.
Advanced Search & Filtering
Full-text search across all content types with powerful filters. Search by location, date range, labels, sources, and more. PostgreSQL full-text search with trigram matching for instant results across millions of records.
Deploy on Your Terms
Self-hosted, fully sovereign. Your data never leaves infrastructure you control.
Self-Hosted
Run on your own servers or private cloud. No third-party dependencies, no data leaving your network.
Data Sovereignty
Meet jurisdictional requirements. Keep sensitive human rights data within your legal boundaries.
Security Hardened
Read-only containers, Argon2 password hashing, TLS encryption, and health monitoring out of the box.
Production Ready
One-command Docker deployment with automatic backups, health checks, and comprehensive documentation.
How Bayanat Works
A systematic approach to human rights documentation that scales from small teams to large organizations.
Document
Create bulletins from reports, testimonies, media, and documents. Each piece of evidence is catalogued with source attribution and verification status.
Connect
Link bulletins to actors (perpetrators, victims, witnesses), incidents, and locations. Build a web of relationships that reveals patterns across your data.
Analyze
Use powerful search, filtering, and visualization tools to identify patterns. Map incidents geographically, build timelines, and trace actor networks.
Collaborate
Share work across your team with granular permissions. Peer review workflows ensure quality while audit trails maintain accountability.
Export
Generate reports, export data for legal proceedings, or integrate with other tools via API. Your documentation is always accessible and portable.
Built for Real-World Documentation
Bayanat was developed by SJAC based on years of experience documenting human rights violations in Syria. Every feature addresses real challenges faced by investigators, researchers, and legal teams working with sensitive data.
Trusted by Organizations Worldwide
Powering human rights documentation at scale
Pieces of documentation preserved and analyzed
Videos labeled and categorized using Bayanat
Battle-tested through years of real-world use
English, Arabic, and Ukrainian support
"Millions of pieces of documentation... it is almost impossible to find what you are looking for if you are a prosecutor. Bayanat makes that possible."
Used in collaboration with
Trusted by Organizations Working for Justice
Used by human rights organizations, international mechanisms, and legal teams worldwide.
Syria Justice &
Accountability Centre
We respect the confidentiality of our partners.
Trusted Across 10 Countries
Documenting human rights violations where it matters most.
Organization names withheld for the safety and security of our partners.
Transparent. Auditable. Community-driven.
Bayanat is released under the AGPL-3.0 license. The code is open for inspection, contribution, and deployment by any organization committed to human rights documentation.
Built by Syrian talents at the Syria Justice & Accountability Centre
Start documenting.
Demand accountability.
Join organizations worldwide using Bayanat to build comprehensive, verifiable records of human rights violations.