Thread: Syrian rebel on student visa is arrested for war crimes

Islam Alloush: Syrian rebel on student visa is arrested for war crimes

Monday February 03 2020, 12.01am GMT, The Times


Islam Alloush has been charged with torture, war crimes and complicity in forced disappearances

A senior figure in Syria’s opposition has been arrested in Marseilles and charged with war crimes.

Islam Alloush, who is in his thirties, was the spokesman for the Army of Islam, a rebel group that controlled the Damascus suburb of Eastern Ghouta for seven years. He is thought to have travelled to France on an Erasmus student visa.

The International Federation for Human Rights, an advocacy organisation that has been working with 20 of the group’s alleged victims and their families, filed a complaint against Mr Alloush with the French authorities in June last year, accusing him of complicity in war crimes, torture and enforced disappearances. The organisation accused the group of carrying out a “reign of terror”.

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Aren't wars criminal by their very nature.
Therefore....war crimes.


Implicit.
All.


FFS, who makes up this shit?
Them? [the good guys]

Originally Posted by Klondyke

on an Erasmus student visa.

That's a Masters or PhD . . . war zone, war criminal, torture, intelligent . . .

How easy to study in Farangset, even if you are ...

Washington. Rights groups and experts say a leading commander of a Syrian Islamist armed group who was recently arrested in France was involved in torture and war crimes against civilians in Syria.

Majdi Mustafa Nameh, commonly known as Islam Alloush, was arrested last week in the French city of Marseille on charges related to torture, war crimes and complicity in forced disappearances, according to French news agency AFP.

A former captain in the Syrian army, Alloush had a leading role in establishing Jaysh al-Islam, an extremist rebel group based near the Syrian capital, Damascus. He was the spokesman of the group until 2017.

Criminal lawsuit in June? Just let him finish the semester...

His arrest came months after several rights groups, including the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), filed a criminal lawsuit against members of Jaysh al-Islam for crimes committed by the rebel group.

"Islam Alloush was also allegedly involved in the forced enlistment of children in the armed group. Several victims also directly incriminate him for kidnapping and torture,” FIDH said in a statement following Alloush’s arrest by French authorities.

Rights Groups Allege Syrian Rebel Leader Arrested in France Committed War Crimes | Voice of America - English

International Federation
for Human Rights

https://www.fidh.org/en/

One of hundreds of toothless biased cases, all around the world.

Nothing on the Julian Assange case, Diego Garcia peoples return ....

Probably excellent score for Eastbourne Hand Wringing: