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Syria stands accused of torturing tens of thousands of its citizens and maintaining a system of "abhorrent treatment", according to arguments at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in the first international case over the Syrian civil war. The case has been brought to the ICJ by both Canada and
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France violated the rights of French women it refuses to repatriate from detention camps in north-east Syria, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has ruled. In yesterday's Grand Chamber judgment, the court held by a majority that there had been a violation of Article 3 § 2 of Protocol No
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A former Syrian official has been convicted in Germany of being an accomplice to crimes against humanity in an unprecedented case. Eyad al-Gharib, 44, was one of two former Syrian intelligence officers charged by German prosecutors last year under the principle of universal jurisdiction. The other w
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