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Germany charges two Syrians with crimes against humanity
2019-10-30
[Al Jazeera] Two Syrians have been charged by German prosecutors with crimes against humanity - including torturing and killing opposition activists. It sets the stage for the first trial of suspected members of Hereditary President-for-Life Bashir Pencilneck al-Assad
Leveler of Latakia...
's infamous security services.

The two men were detained in Germany in February under its "universal jurisdiction" laws that allow it to prosecute people for crimes against humanity committed anywhere in the world. A third suspect was arrested in La Belle France in a joint operation, the federal prosecutor's office in the German city of Karlsruhe said.

Prosecutors said the main suspect, identified as Anwar R.
... a high ranking official in Syria's General Intelligence Service who applied for German asylum in 2014, then was arrested for being evil in February...
under Germany's privacy rules, faces charges including 58 murders and multiple sexual assaults in a Damascus prison, where at least 4,000 opposition activists were tortured.

The 56-year-old is alleged to have overseen interrogations at the facility, and is suspected of involvement in crimes against humanity between 2011 and 2012. He allegedly led an investigative unit with its own prison in the Damascus area before leaving Syria in 2012 and arriving in Germany in July 2014.

The second suspect, Eyad A.,
...sometimes Eyad A-G...
is charged with facilitating the torture of at least 30 opposition activists arrested after intelligence agents opened fire on an anti-Assad demonstration in Douma near Damascus in autumn 2011. He is believed to have rounded up and helped capture fleeing demonstrators before handing them over to Anwar R.

Eyad A, who left Syria in 2013 and arrived in Germany in April 2018, worked for Anwar R's intelligence unit.
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