Anwar Raslan

Anwar Raslan (Arabic: أنور رسلان‎,[1] born 3 February 1963[2]) is a former Syrian colonel who led a unit of Syria's General Intelligence Directorate.[3] In 2020, he was charged crimes against humanity in a German Higher Regional Court under universal jurisdiction.[3] The specific charges against him are with 4,000 counts of torture, 58 counts of murder, and rape and sexual coercion.[4] His case is the first internationally against a member of the Syrian regime under Bashar al-Assad.[5]

Raslan defected from the Assad regime and he and his family were smuggled to Jordan in December 2012.[6] He came to Germany in 2014 and was granted asylum in the same year.[7] He was arrested in Germany in February 2019[8] and charged in March 2020; the trial began in April 2020[4] and may last over a year.[5]

References
  1. "من مخابرات الأسد إلى المنفى.. مسار سوريّين يحاكمان في ألمانيا | DW | 25.04.2020". Deutsche Welle (www.dw.com) (in Arabic). Retrieved 2021-01-03.
  2. "Inside the Anwar Raslan trial: the first four days". Syria Justice & Accountability Centre. 2020-05-07. Retrieved 2021-01-05.
  3. "High-profile Syrian war crimes trial begins in Germany. Intelligence official charged with overseeing 4,000 counts of torture and 58 murders". Financial Times. Retrieved 2021-01-03.
  4. "Anklage gegen zwei mutmaßliche Mitarbeiter des syrischen Geheimdienstes wegen der Begehung von Verbrechen gegen die Menschlichkeit u.a. zugelassen". rlp.de (in German). Retrieved 2021-01-03.
  5. "Laws to catch human-rights abusers are growing teeth". The Economist. 2021-01-02. ISSN 0013-0613. Retrieved 2021-01-03. Mr Raslan was arrested in 2019. His trial began in Koblenz in April 2020 and may last for more than a year. (...) The Koblenz case is the first where a member of the Syrian regime, albeit of middle rank, is facing justice in court.
  6. SPIEGEL, Fidelius Schmid, Christoph Reuter, DER. "Koblenz: Prozess gegen Anwar Raslan aus Syrien - DER SPIEGEL - Politik". www.spiegel.de (in German). Retrieved 2021-01-03.
  7. NDR. "Asyl für syrischen Folterchef?". daserste.ndr.de (in German). Retrieved 2021-01-03.
  8. "Germany charges two Syrians with crimes against humanity". the Guardian. 2019-10-29. Retrieved 2021-01-03.
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