Germany is charging two former Syrian regime secret service officers with crimes against humanity in the first trial against state-sponsored torture in Syria
An aerial view of Saydnaya prison, where Amnesty International alleges up to 13,000 people have been hanged since the start of the conflict in Syria.
Raslan, who allegedly led an investigative unit with its own prison in the Damascus area targeting members of the Syrian opposition, is "suspected of complicity in crimes against humanity" in charges filed on October 22, the prosecutors said in a statement. In the town of Douma at the time, security authorities used force to break up an anti-regime rally. Gharib is believed to have helped capture fleeing demonstrators and detain them in the prison headed by Raslan.The Syria conflict began in March 2011 with a series of mass protests demanding civil liberties, prompting a harsh crackdown by the regime which quickly began using "brutal force" against anti-government protesters, prosecutors said.
Several other legal cases are now pending against the regime of Bashar al-Assad in Germany, which took in more than 1.2 million asylum seekers since 2015 including hundreds of thousands of Syrians. Welcoming Tuesday's charges, the ECCHR said: "The first trial worldwide about state torture in Syria is expected to start in Germany in early 2020 – an important step in the fight against impunity."
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