Smuggled images used in landmark Syria torture trial
BRUTAL SNAPSHOTS: A defector, who had worked as a photographer for the Syrian military police, risked his life to take 53,275 images of 6,786 corpses
AFP, KOBLENZ, Germany
Thousands of images of dead Syrians smuggled out of the country by a photographer known as “Caesar” showed the world the horrors that detainees allegedly suffered at the hands of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s regime.
The so-called Caesar files constituted key evidence in a landmark German trial dealing with crimes against humanity in Syria, which handed down its first verdict on Wednesday.
In the first court case worldwide over state-sponsored torture by al-Assad’s regime, Eyad al-Gharib, 44, was sentenced by a German court to four-and-a-half years in prison for complicity in crimes against humanity.
Courts close in on Syria government
24 February 2021By AFP
2 min 47Approximate reading time A German court on Wednesday jailed a former Syrian intelligence agent for complicity in crimes against humanity in the world’s first prosecution over state-sponsored torture by the Syrian government. It is just one of a growing number of cases being brought against loyalists of President Bashar al-Assad in jurisdictions around the world. Here is a look at some of the others. – First trial in Germany – In Wednesday’s landmark judgement in the German city of Koblenz, Eyad al-Gharib, 44, a former low-ranking member of the intelligence service, was sentenced to four years and six months in prison for being an accomplice to crimes against humanity while helping to arrest protesters and deliver them to a detention centre in Damascus in autumn 2011.
Eyad al-Gharib, a former low-ranking officer in Syria's intelligence services, was sentenced to four and a half years in prison for aiding and abetting crimes against humanity.
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