World's first Syria torture trial opens in Germany:
Two ex-military members accused of torture had been living in Germany as refugees and were arrested over a ...
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Syrian Torture Trial Opens in GermanyProceedings began in Koblenz on April 23, 2020; both defendants had been arrested in February 2019.
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- Germany opened the world’s first trial of a senior Syrian military member for war crimes in Koblenz.
- Former colonel Anwar Raslan and co-defendant Eyad al-Gharib had lived in Germany as refugees and were arrested in February 2019.
- Prosecutors allege that at Branch 251, at least 4,000 prisoners were tortured and at least 58 died between April 2011 and September 2012.
- Five specially appointed judges will decide the case under Germany’s universal-jurisdiction principle, and proceedings are expected to last up to two years.
We believe that such crimes against civilians should not go unpunished.— Jasper Klinge, a senior public prosecutor from Germany’s federal supreme court, told journalists afterwards.
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