After Germany issued the first arrest warrant for a senior official of the Assad regime in June 2018, a raft a criminal complaints have been filed across European jurisdictions including France, Austria, Sweden and Norway. CIJA is supporting numerous such investigations and provides ongoing assistance to prosecutorial authorities throughout Europe and North America.
Read MoreCIJA’s unprecedented evidence holdings, exceeding 800,000 pages of Syrian regime documents and thousands of testimonial interviews, are being drawn upon by prosecutors throughout Europe as they seek accountability for crimes committed by the Assad government.
Read MoreEvidence gathered against the Syrian regime constitutes the strongest case against a government since Nuremburg, and the document trail held by CIJA links crimes committed all the way up to President Bashar al-Assad.
Read MoreThe heroic work of CIJA’s Syrian investigators is making it possible to hold the Assad regime
accountable for its heinous crimes. CNN was granted exclusive access by CIJA to witness first-hand how over 800,000 pages of regime documents have been smuggled out of Syria since 2011.
CIJA’s investigations have detailed the chain of command within the four branches of the Syrian secret service, ranging from sub-divisions in cities and provinces all the way up to the Central Crisis Management Cell, inculpating senior figures including President Bashar al-Assad.
Read MoreHundreds of thousands of Syrians have languished in the government’s vast prison complex, untold numbers the victim of inhuman conditions, torture, and extrajudicial killing. CIJA’s evidence holdings include memos from Syria’s intelligence agencies acknowledging and ordering abuses in detention, corroborating the infamous Caesar photographs and helping to identify individuals within the collection.
Read MoreDocumentary evidence and witness testimony provided by CIJA was pivotal in the investigation leading to an arrest warrant for Anwar Raslan, suspected of directing abuse of prisoners at Branch 251 and Branch 258 of Syria’s General Intelligence Directorate.
Read MoreRelying on evidence and expert witness analysis provided by CIJA, a federal court in the United States issued a first ever ruling against the Syrian regime for crimes committed during the civil war. The British-American journalist was targeted by Syrian armed forces while reporting the siege of Homs in February 2012.
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