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How a Syrian torture victim found justice in Germany
Luna Watfa was imprisoned by Syria s secret service. Now in Germany, she has closely followed the trial of regime torturers in a Koblenz court.
Luna was captured, tortured, then fled and faced her past in the German city of Koblenz
Luna, who asked that her real name not be used, spent more than 60 days in the courtroom, hoping for answers, for justice and reliving painful experiences. I remember what happened to me, she said. When I have to hear the same details about torture from witnesses, it is very difficult for me.
Wolfgang Kaleck is using the justice system to do what nation-states will not or cannot.
Goetz Schleser/laif/Redux
December 14, 2020
Wolfgang Kaleck, a 60-year-old human rights lawyer with large blue eyes and a wave of sandy brown hair, smiles a lot for someone who has spent his life litigating some of the world’s worst atrocities. “The stories you hear you won’t forget,” he says, sitting at a long table in his office in Berlin’s Kreuzberg district. “But at the same time you learn about these cruel facts of the world, you learn about the light side, which is that there’s resistance basically everywhere.” He should know: For the better part of three decades, he has pursued cases across borders on behalf of victims who have been disappeared by the military dictatorship in Argentina and spied upon by the East German Stasi. He has filed criminal complaints against former U.S. officials, including President George W. Bush, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, CIA Direc