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Germany Convicts Syrian In 'Historic' Torture Trial By Yannick PASQUET 02/24/21 AT 10:21 AM A German court on Wednesday convicted a former Syrian intelligence service agent for complicity in crimes against humanity, in the first court case worldwide over state-sponsored torture by Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's government. Eyad al-Gharib, 44, was sentenced to four and a half years in prison over his role in helping to arrest at least 30 protesters in Duma in autumn 2011 and deliver them to the Al-Khatib detention centre in Damascus where they were tortured. Almost 10 years since the A...

The Bleeding Decade Launch Event for SNHR’s Tenth Annual Report: The Most Notable Human Rights Violations in Syria in 2020 For the tenth consecutive year – since the start of the popular uprising in Syria in March 2011 – we at the Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR) have continued to document the perpetration of multiple patterns of egregious human rights violations in Syria, including extrajudicial killings, arrests, torture, displacement and forced displacement, and the use of prohibited munitions and other highly destructive munitions, as well as other violations. The Syrian regim...

Why the Koblenz trial is an exception? 14 December 2020By Asymmetrical Haircuts, for JusticeInfo.net In the field of universal jurisdiction, successes are rare and deserve to be closely watched, as Justice Info does in a first video of its brand new series IN CAMERA, released today - for the Koblenz trial, the first criminal trial involving state torture in Syria. Instead, the rule for victims is the difficulty in getting to this kind of trials, for a number of reasons precisely discussed in this new podcast episode by our Asymmetrical Haircuts partners and correspondents, Janet Anderson and...

T HE BALDING figure looks frail and harmless, sitting in the dock behind a Perspex screen in the German town of Koblenz, where the rivers Rhine and Moselle unite. But appearances can deceive. Anwar Raslan, 57, once a Syrian policeman, has been charged with torturing more than 4,000 people and murdering at least 58 between 2011 and 2012, when Syria’s dictator, Bashar al-Assad, set about crushing the initially peaceful demonstrations that shook his regime as the Arab spring took off. Listen to this story Enjoy more audio and podcasts oniOSorAndroid. Mr Raslan is on trial because, by his own l...

)  “On the face of it, scrupulous adherence to the law is a victory for the cause of humane war. Yet the ruins of Syria tell a more complicated story. Not long before the U.S. assault on Raqqa, Russian and Syrian forces launched a major offensive to capture the rebel-held eastern side of Aleppo. Paying no heed to international law, they retook the city with savage efficiency, laying waste to crowded markets and hospitals. Yet the end result looked no different from Raqqa: a large civilian death toll, honeycombed apartment buildings, streets choked with rubble, entire neighborhoods flattene...