Germany sentences two Syrian regime officers accused of torturing and killing thousands of civilians

ARK News… A German court convicted Iyad Gharib, a former Syrian officer, on charges of war crimes, in the first of its kind, in which it sentenced the Syrian intelligence agent to 4.5 years in prison, according to identical media sources.

The German judiciary sentenced the officer in the Syrian regime's army, Iyad al-Gharib, who is 44 years old, and accused of complicity in crimes against humanity, four and a half years in prison, as well as for participating in the arrest and imprisonment of at least 30 demonstrators in Doma, the largest city in Eastern Ghouta, near Damascus, in a secret detention camp belonging to the regime called "Branch 251" or Al-Khatib, between September and October 2011.

As for the second accused, he is Anwar Raslan, who is 58 years old, and is considered the most important in the vast Syrian security department and is prosecuted for committing crimes against humanity in killing 58 people and torturing 4,000 detainees in particular.

Activists praised the trial, considering it a "first step towards achieving justice for the thousands of Syrians who say they have been tortured in Syrian prisons," after failed attempts to establish a special international court to prosecute Syrian officials.

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