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Torture Trial in Vienna: Victims Described Cruel Details

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At the Vienna Criminal Court, the trial of two former representatives of the Assad regime was continued. They were said to have been involved in the torture of at least 21 people.

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At the Vienna Criminal Court, the trial of two former representatives of the Assad regime was continued. They were said to have been involved in the torture of at least 21 people.

Two high-ranking security officials of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad are on trial in Austria. The former general is the highest-ranking representative of the former Syrian government to be arrested in Europe so far.

The trial of two former representatives of the Syrian Assad regime continued on Tuesday at the Vienna Regional Court. One victim testified that he had been tortured for approximately 24 hours by the authorities to which the two defendants belonged. He said that the cold and beatings had left him with a blue tinge all over his body. The judge also read a statement from a now-deceased witness who, as a forensic pathologist, had had dealings with t…

Beating, electricity, fear of death: On Monday another witness spoke about the martyrdom that had been inflicted on him by the Assad regime's henchmen

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der Standard DE broke the news on Tuesday, June 16, 2026.
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