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Germany Charges Two Syrian Migrants, Allegedly Secret Service Officers, With Crimes Against Humanity
By Searchlight Germany, October 30, 2019:
German prosecutors said Tuesday they have charged two suspected former members of Syria’s secret police with crimes against humanity in a case that human rights campaigners say marks a major step in the fight to hold to account Syrian officials responsible for atrocities in the country’s long-running civil war.
Federal prosecutors said in a statement that one of the men, identified only as Anwar R. due to privacy rules, is alleged to have abetted the abuse of political detainees at a prison he oversaw near Damascus, known as Branch 251, during the early stages of the uprising against the government of President Bashar al-Assad.“In the period between the end of April 2011 and the beginning of September 2012 at least 4,000 prisoners were subjected to brutal and massive torture by subordinates of the accused during their interrogations there,” German prosecutors said in a statement. “At least 58 people died as a result of the abuse.”
“As head of the investigation unit Anwar R. determined and oversaw working procedures in the prison and thereby also the use of systematic and brutal torture,” prosecutors added. R., who is in his late 50s, has been indicted on counts of participating in crimes against humanity, rape, serious sexual abuse and 58 cases of murder. The second suspect, identified as Eyad A., is accused of contributing to crimes against humanity by enabling the torture and imprisonment of at least 30 protesters in late 2011.The suspect, in his early 40s, was part of a unit that arrested people following a demonstration in the city of Douma and took them to the Branch 251 prison, where they were severely mistreated. The men were allegedly members of Syria’s General Intelligence Directorate until they left the country in late 2012 and early 2013. Both men later came to Germany, where they were arrested in February.The European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights called the case “an important step in the fight against impunity.” The Berlin-based group, which helps victims of abuse in Syria and elsewhere, said the case was the result of a series of criminal complaints submitted over the past three years by almost 50 Syrian torture survivors, relatives, activists, and lawyers in Germany, Austria and Sweden. Five of the torture victims plan to join the trial as co-plaintiffs, as allowed under German law.Patrick Kroker, a lawyer representing three of the victims, said his clients were politically active in Syria in some form, mostly by participating in protests against the Assad government or documenting them, before they were imprisoned and tortured at Branch 251. “They hope this trial will achieve something beyond their individual cases,” Kroker told The Associated Press. “They want to show that these weren’t isolated incidents and that such crimes are still taking place today.” The trial is expected to begin early next year in the western German city of Koblenz.
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4 years ago
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4 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
M2t trans murkle is ruining her country. Germany and Europe looking like Black Hole of Calcutta. LOL.
4 years ago
Now imagine a Germanistan where such muslums are members of the Polizei? But you don’t have to imagine it, allah you have to do is look at the kind of “justice” meted out in Dearbornistan, Michigan.
4 years ago
Reply to
MuhamMADTheFakeProphet
I can’t wait to see the MUSLIM military. The problem is they are low IQ people and have a different agenda.
In the U.S. we will not allow an IQ of less than either 83 or 85 sign up. It has been determined they don’t work out well in the military As Muslims dominate in Europe, there will be little choice by draft your enemy to do the final take over for Islam.
4 years ago
WHAT??
Say it ain’t so…. muslems committing crimes against humanity
…..noooooooo……
4 years ago
Wat about the probably hundreds of ISIS killers in Germany? Oh that is okay as they were not allied with Syria. Classical leftist hypocrisy and rather like the “hate crime laws:” that are now flooding the west and inverting the rule of law.
4 years ago
Something seems very wrong with this story – if they were in Assad’s secret police they would not have left. This is looking like a false flag prosecution in an unverifiable situation. Not prosecuting ISIS returnees to Germany but prosecute this ?? I dont ‘t buy it.
4 years ago
Reply to
1PierreMontagne1
Nothing the Left does is explicable either by logic, morality, honesty or integrity. But only by the ideological inversion of fiction for fact brainwashed into idiots who are unable to do more than ask . when asked to bark…how loud and for how long? Seriously these cretins both the leaders and their supporters are detrimental to not just the planet but humanity and we would be saving both by removing them.
4 years ago
The results of a poll taken in the UK shows that 1.5 million people support ISIS plus 32,000 ISIS supporters who are on the terror watch list. What could possibly go wrong? A once great country reduced to housing Muslim scum, providing them with tax payer’s money plus free healthcare and a PC police force that protects them and comes down hard on any people or organizations that dare to speak out about the massive increase in crime, rapes, murders committed by these disgusting alien creatures that have no right to be in a civilized country.
4 years ago
Reply to
rickyoo
The only cure is to remove the current “leadership, destroy the labour party and socialism entirely but not the unions who have a role in all societies (but NOT their leaders) and to outlaw all leftists from positions of responsibility. Then once our back is safe, remove islam. This is the ONLY chance of keeping the UK.
4 years ago
Evil sadistic scumbags!
4 years ago
I’m surprised the gutless German government is doing anything, but they are muslims versing muslims. If they had been arresting and torturing Christian and European people then the Merkel’s fascist wouldn’t be bringing them to court. They would have been give even more special privileges
