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.
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.
If you're new to this and wonder what it was like, being arrested in #Syria by the regime amid the start of the #Syrianrevolution - here's a picture of a friend of mine who was arrested there between 2011 & 2012 for speaking up at his local faculty in Damascus.
In 2017 @Josiensor & I worked on a story that I shall never forget about Syrian prisons. Omar's story will haunt me for years, one of the bravest most hopeful young men imprisoned and tortured by the Syrian regime in #Saydnaya prison #Syria
telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/06/0…
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