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On January 13, 2022, the first European trial against a senior official of the Syrian regime took place. A former intelligence officer has been sentenced to life in prison in Germany for crimes against humanity. Anwar Raslan, a former interrogation chief at a Damascus detention center, was found guilty of 4,000 counts of torture and the murder of 27 detainees, a year after one of his subordinates was convicted by the same German court.
The road to justice has been long for the victims and their lawyers to find the Syrian torturers who have been based in Europe since 2013.
Russian and Chinese vetoes have long blocked the International Criminal Court in The Hague from ruling on these cases, which is why German prosecutors decided to bring them under the principle of universal jurisdiction.
Through hard work, those searching for Syrian war criminals have been able to begin locating and exposing them.
A report by Fernande van Tets and Marine Pradel of France 24.
First modification:
On January 13, 2022, the first European trial against a senior official of the Syrian regime took place. A former intelligence officer has been sentenced to life in prison in Germany for crimes against humanity. Anwar Raslan, a former interrogation chief at a Damascus detention center, was found guilty of 4,000 counts of torture and the murder of 27 detainees, a year after one of his subordinates was convicted by the same German court.
The road to justice has been long for the victims and their lawyers to find the Syrian torturers who have been based in Europe since 2013.
Russian and Chinese vetoes have long blocked the International Criminal Court in The Hague from ruling on these cases, which is why German prosecutors decided to bring them under the principle of universal jurisdiction.
Through hard work, those searching for Syrian war criminals have been able to begin locating and exposing them.
A report by Fernande van Tets and Marine Pradel of France 24.
First modification:
On January 13, 2022, the first European trial against a senior official of the Syrian regime took place. A former intelligence officer has been sentenced to life in prison in Germany for crimes against humanity. Anwar Raslan, a former interrogation chief at a Damascus detention center, was found guilty of 4,000 counts of torture and the murder of 27 detainees, a year after one of his subordinates was convicted by the same German court.
The road to justice has been long for the victims and their lawyers to find the Syrian torturers who have been based in Europe since 2013.
Russian and Chinese vetoes have long blocked the International Criminal Court in The Hague from ruling on these cases, which is why German prosecutors decided to bring them under the principle of universal jurisdiction.
Through hard work, those searching for Syrian war criminals have been able to begin locating and exposing them.
A report by Fernande van Tets and Marine Pradel of France 24.
First modification:
On January 13, 2022, the first European trial against a senior official of the Syrian regime took place. A former intelligence officer has been sentenced to life in prison in Germany for crimes against humanity. Anwar Raslan, a former interrogation chief at a Damascus detention center, was found guilty of 4,000 counts of torture and the murder of 27 detainees, a year after one of his subordinates was convicted by the same German court.
The road to justice has been long for the victims and their lawyers to find the Syrian torturers who have been based in Europe since 2013.
Russian and Chinese vetoes have long blocked the International Criminal Court in The Hague from ruling on these cases, which is why German prosecutors decided to bring them under the principle of universal jurisdiction.
Through hard work, those searching for Syrian war criminals have been able to begin locating and exposing them.
A report by Fernande van Tets and Marine Pradel of France 24.