Zaman al-Wasl has received a new torture testimony against Colonel Anwar Raslan, a former Syrian Intelligence officer was arrested in Germany with one more ex-officer on Tuesday on charges of carrying out or aiding in crimes against humanity, including torture of anti-regime activists.
The former detainee, who spoke on condition of anonymity, expressed his willingness to be summoned before the court, to testify and to set himself up against Raslan, 56, who directly supervised his interrogation and torture in 2007, when he was detained in the Interior Branch (251), known also as al-Khateeb Branch. At that time, Ruslan was a Major.
The former detainee had informed the authorities of the host country and their Human Rights Organisations, about his subjugation, arrest and torture by Bashar al-Assad’s Intelligence.
The arrest of Raslan will pave the way for what could result in the first criminal trials of senior members of President Bashar Assad's regime anywhere in the world, according to NPR.
The apprehensions follow years of investigation launched by the Berlin-based European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights, and included testimony from six alleged torture survivors.
The witness, who has been living in a European country for five years, has confirmed that Ruslan has interrogated him and ordered his guards to torture him by all means like beating, the ghost hanging for long hours, the German chair and the electric shock. Due to which the detainee still has remaining scars on his leg today, despite of all these years.
“After interrogating me in the internal section, by Colonel Anwar Ruslan, I was referred to the Supreme State Security Court, which was headed by Fayez Al-Nouri," he said.
“Then I was released, after 8 months of imprisonment, to be later on arrested by the branch that was headed by Ruslan, in 2010. But I was released few day after paying an large amount of money as a bribe to one of the closed to the same Colonel”.
Zaman Al Wasl
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