US prosecutors are charging two senior Syrian officials with overseeing a notorious torture center that mistreated nonviolent protesters, including a 26-year-old American woman who is believed to have been murdered. Went.
The indictment was then pronounced two days later on Monday A rebel attack overthrew Syrian President Bashar AssadThe US, UN and others accuse him of general human rights abuses in his 13-year battle to dominate opposition forces demanding his removal from power.
warWhat began as a largely non-violent widespread insurgency in 2011 has killed approximately 1,000,000 people in the community.
The indictment, filed in federal court in Chicago on November 18, is considered the first charge by the US government against what officials say was a network of Assad intelligence services and branches of the armed forces that detained hundreds of alleged people, Tortured and killed. enemy.
It names Jamil Hassan, director of the Syrian Wind Energy Department of Knowledge, who prosecutors say oversaw a prison and torture center at the Mezeh wind farm in the capital, Damascus, and Abdul Salam Mahmoud, who is accused of Prosecutors say he ran the prison.
The indictment said the victims included Syrians, American citizens and Twin Cities voters. The US-based Syrian Disaster Response Force has long prompted federal prosecutors to take action on a case involving 26-year-old US aid worker Laila Shweikani.
The gang offered eyewitnesses who testified to Shweikani’s 2016 torture in prison. Syrian rights groups believe he will be executed at the Sayednaya military prison in the Damascus suburbs.
The whereabouts of the two Syrian officials were not immediately known and the likelihood of their prosecution was slim. Assad’s overthrow by rebels over the weekend has ousted his government and left voters scouring prison torture facilities across the country for survivors and evidence.
