Conviction of former Syrian secret police officer brings solace but sparks a debate Nabih Bulos © Provided by The LA Times Syrian defendant Eyad Gharib hides his face in a courtroom in Koblenz, Germany, on Wednesday. (Thomas Lohnes / Pool photo)
In the winter of 2014, Anwar Bunni, a top human rights lawyer who escaped to Germany from his native Syria, was in a refugee camp near Berlin when he saw a familiar face.
“I couldn’t remember him exactly. He saw me, and turned away,” Bunni said.
It was only days later that Bunni placed him: It was Anwar Raslan, a colonel in Syria’s intelligence services. Almost a decade earlier, Raslan had nabbed Bunni from the streets of Damascus, shoving him into a car and taking him to a branch of Syria’s General Intelligence Directorate for what turned out to be a five-year prison stay.
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