“Proceedings based on the principle of universal jurisdiction are an important bridge for our human rights work in Syria. We do not yet have the opportunity to conduct criminal proceedings on the ground ourselves. However, the trials in Germany represent an important impulse from outside – one that can be carried into Syrian institutions and contribute to reckoning with the crimes and rebuilding the wounded society,” says Fadel Abdulghany from the Syrian Network for Human Rights.
Charges brought for crimes under Assad: The starvation siege of Yarmouk
