International Court of Justice orders Assad regime to end its torture of detainees in Syria, as a French court issues an arrest warrant for Bashar al-Assad.
The UN’s highest court ordered Syria to take “all measures within its power” to prevent torture and preserve evidence related to a landmark case brought by .
Despite the coldness and technicality of the ICJ, survivors and activists remain optimistic when Canada and the Netherlands apply to the Court about acts of torture in Syria, systematically perpetrated by the government.
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Syria stands accused of torturing tens of thousands of its citizens and maintaining a system of "abhorrent treatment", according to arguments at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in the first international case over the Syrian civil war. The case has been brought to the ICJ by both Canada and