If you are a person who “hungers and thirsts for justice” for the abused and tortured, you will be happy to know that two leading representatives of the criminal regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad are on trial in the high court of Koblenz, Germany for crimes against humanity under the principle of “universal jurisdiction.” When evidence is gathered, any suspect can be arrested and tried for crimes against humanity committed anywhere in the world. One day, Assad himself and other torturers and killers around the world will stand trial.
Anwar Raslan was a colonel in the Syrian army and headed the notorious unit Branch 251 of the Syrian military intelligence. His unit reportedly arrested thousands of Syrians, imprisoned them, tortured, sexually abused, raped and executed many by state-sanctioned torture and murder. Raslan and his hatchetman Eyad al-Gharib left Syria to hide in Germany among thousands of Syrian refugees. He was identified and arrested last February 2019. Under the principle of universal jurisdiction, any suspect with strong evidence against him or her for crimes against humanity can be arrested anywhere and brought to stand trial in any jurisdiction.
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