a senior Syrian intelligence officer sentenced to life imprisonment

It is a historic trial. A former colonel of the Syrian intelligence services was sentenced, Thursday, January 13, by the German justice to life imprisonment for crimes against humanity in the framework of the first trial in the world linked to the abuses attributed to the regime of Bashar al-Assad .

The Koblenz Regional High Court found Syrian Anwar Raslan, 58, guilty of the death of prisoners and the torture of thousands more in a secret power detention center in Damascus, between 2011 and 2012. He This is the second conviction in this trial after that, in February 2021, of a former more junior Syrian intelligence agent.

Almost eleven years after the start of the popular uprising in Syria, the concluding hearing was the first to examine crimes blamed on the Syrian regime and repeatedly documented by Syrian activists and NGOs.

The World with AFP

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