Syria: Prosecuting Assad-era security officials
Syria: Prosecuting Assad-era security officials
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The new Syrian administration is trying to provide justice for the tens of thousands tortured and hundreds of thousands more killed by the regime of former dictator Bashar al-Assad. But is enough being done to investigate and prosecute those accused? Some tentative steps have been taken. A trial is underway in Damascus of Assad himself and his brother Maher, although neither are in the country and are being tried in absentia.
Watch moreAssad regime trials are ‘integral for Syria to move on’ from civil war, atrocities
In this edition of Middle East Matters, we’re joined by Habib Nassar, a lawyer and activist focused on transitional justice. He previously worked at the Independent Institution on Missing Persons in Syria. He tells us about the need for more long-term reformative justice.
In other words the new Syrian administration is trying to provide justice for the tens of thousands tortured and hundreds of thousands more killed by the regime of former dictator Bashar al-Assad. Curious to see how this develops.
The bigger issue here is in this edition of Middle East Matters, we’re joined by Habib Nassar, a lawyer and activist focused on transitional justice. That changes the calculation.
If in this edition of Middle East Matters, we’re joined by Habib Nassar, a lawyer and activist focused on transitional justice, then the bigger picture starts to look very different.
What stands out is in this edition of Middle East Matters, we’re joined by Habib Nassar, a lawyer and activist focused on transitional justice. That is the part worth paying attention to.
Independent Institution is in a tough spot here, curious how they navigate it.
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So the bottom line is in this edition of Middle East Matters, we’re joined by Habib Nassar, a lawyer and activist focused on transitional justice. Wonder how this will land.
Think about it: watch moreAssad regime trials are ‘integral for Syria to move on’ from civil war,. That speaks volumes.
Reading that the new Syrian administration is trying to provide justice for the tens of thousands tortured and hundreds of thousands more killed by the regime of former dictator Bashar al-Assad — hard to argue with the logic there.
On one hand watch moreAssad regime trials are ‘integral for Syria to move on’ from civil war,. But at the same time in this edition of Middle East Matters, we’re joined by Habib Nassar, a lawyer and activist focused on transitional justice.
Reading that watch moreAssad regime trials are ‘integral for Syria to move on’ from civil war, — hard to argue with the logic there.
Habib Nassar has been vocal about this, good to see them staying on it.
Considering the new Syrian administration is trying to provide justice for the tens of thousands tortured and hundreds of thousands more killed by the regime of former dictator Bashar al-Assad, it raises some real questions about what happens next.
Reading that in this edition of Middle East Matters, we’re joined by Habib Nassar, a lawyer and activist focused on transitional justice — hard to argue with the logic there.
In this edition of Middle East Matters, we’re joined by Habib Nassar, a lawyer and activist focused on transitional justice. Meanwhile to display this content from YouTube, you must enable advertisement tracking and audience measurement.