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Anwar Raslan is a 57 Years old former intelligence member from #Syria.

He is charged with crimes against humanity that include imprisonment & torture. Yesterday he appeared on trial in Germany in one of the first international trials of a Syrian defector. ImageImage
The charges he is being investigated with vary from rape to aggravated sexual assault & at least 58 murders at Branch 251, an intelligence unit prison Damascus #Syria amnesty.org.uk/press-releases…
He allegedly was present at the torture of at least 4,000 people as a commanding officer between 2011 & 2012 - I interviewed some of the ex-detainees in #Syria who had fled to #Lebanon over the past few years between 2014 and 2017.
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A source close to #Damascus has revealed that #Aleppo will be 'soon' receiving thousands of detainees death notifications. 'At least half of those deaths may have been executions', according to him. Those executed were held on terrorism charges or detained on the battlefield.
The source believes the notifications will top 30,000 within a year and possibly go northwards of 50,000. While many have been executed, loads have died of starvation, infections turning into sepsis for lack of medical care, and tuberculosis, among other diseases
The notifications, he said, will only account for the detainees who died in 'formal' detentions. The thousands who died in the various Security Branches are not included in his '30, 000+' estimate.
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