Syria’s rebels hail ex-officer’s conviction, want justice to go higher

“Syrian rebel and opposition groups said Germany’s conviction of a former Syrian intelligence officer for crimes against humanity this week was welcome but was only a step towards holding to account President Bashar al-Assad and his top aides

Fadel Abdul Ghany, head of the Syrian Network for Human Rights, which helped prosecutors and compiles casualty lists, said the conviction showed these are crimes of a systematic widespread nature that cannot be carried out by individuals without being a central policy of the Syrian regime”