A group of Syrian survivors and activists hope a criminal case in Germany will hold regime officials accountable for rape and other abuse
A group of Syrians in Germany are using the country’s criminal system to help prosecute perpetrators of rape and other forms of torture back in their native home.
Seven men and women filed a criminal complaint with German federal prosecutors, which urged officials to look into abuses taking place within the Assad regime’s prison system. The victims say that between April 2011 and October 2013, they were held in Assad’s air force facilities and were subjected to physical abuse - includingThere were also electric shocks adminstered to genitals, as well as sexual harassment and forced nudity.
Working in conjunction with the Syrian Women’s Network and Urnammu, the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights said that it wants proceedings to lead to the issue of eight arrest warrants for identified suspects, in addition to the broadening of charges against one other suspect who is already the subject of ongoing criminal action.
In 2018, German authorities issued an arrest warrant against former regime air force intelligence chief,The June 2020 case follows an April 2020 case that indicted a regime intelligence official named asAn unnamed victim quoted in the ECCHR statement said, “I want the international community and judicial authorities to know what we went through just because we are women.
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