press release
SCM

19/04/2021

Complaint is filed in Sweden against representatives of...

The criminal complaint is filed before the Swedish police by Syrian victims and survivors and the civil society organisations Civil Rights Defenders, Syrian Center for Media and Freedom of Expression...

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SCM

17/05/2019

Swedish War Crimes Unit interviews Syrian torture survivors

Swedish prosecution authorities responded promptly to the first criminal complaint filed in Sweden on torture in Syria. Since April, four of altogether nine Syrian plaintiffs – all of them torture...

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SCM

14/11/2018

Torture in Syria: Investigations in Austria are a...

Vienna/Berlin, 13 November 2018 – The road to justice for war crimes and torture in Syria also leads through Europe. After Germany, Sweden and France, Austrian authorities have initiated an...

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SCM

29/05/2018

Torture in Syria: The path to justice leads...

16 torture survivors from Syria file criminal complaint in Austria against senior officials in Assad government   Vienna/Berlin, 29 May 2017 – They survived torture and detention in Syria and...