[EN.ZAMANALWSL.NET] The case emerged in February 2016 when Huthaifa Derkel was stopped and questioned. He admitted to the charges brought against him from theft to communicating with a regime agent, and handing over three people to the security forces for them to be conscripted into the army. Derkel’s testimony was strengthened by that of his partner in the thefts Khalouk Hallak. Hallak testified that Derkel told him that he handed three people from the al-Qasas family to the regime security forces.Based on the admission, referred to as "Master of Evidence", the Shariah Commission in Aleppo issued a decision to execute Derkel after proving the charges of "Manifesting the infidels" by handing over three people to the security forces on 11 March 2013. Two judges signed the death sentence, Abu Ihsan and Abu Abdullah al-Sharii. Then on 23 March 2016, Derkel’s sentence was amended to only two-years imprisonment and 30 lashes on the head at the beginning of every month.
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Three other judges signed off on the reduced sentence: Abu Adham, Abu Adnan, Abu Ahmad al-Sharii (Mounir Zammar).
| Two judges signed the death sentence, Abu Ihsan and Abu Abdullah al-Sharii. Then on 23 March 2016, Derkel’s sentence was amended to only two-years imprisonment and 30 lashes on the head at the beginning of every month. Three other judges signed off on the reduced sentence: Abu Adham, Abu Adnan, Abu Ahmad al-Sharii (Mounir Zammar). |
Regardless of the correctness of either decision, the investigations raise questions about the ways the Commission managed the rights’ violation cases and civilian injustices experienced in one of the most important areas that was outside regime control. The questions emerge as the rights’ violations cases were a major cause that pushed so many people to revolt against the al-Assad regime.
