A historic trial opened this Tuesday, May 21 in Paris, it is the first in France on the crimes of the Bashar al-Assad regime. Three senior Syrian officials are being tried in their absence for complicity in crimes against humanity. They are also accused of complicity in war crimes and targeted by international arrest warrants. Interview with Clémence Bectarte, lawyer for the close family of two Franco-Syrians who died under torture and coordinator of the FIDH legal action group.
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Trial in France of the crimes of the Syrian regime: “Detainees died daily under torture”
