A group of victims of the Iranian government crackdown during the Women, Life, Freedom protests in 2022 have filed the first criminal complaint against 40 named Iranian officials alleging crimes against humanity, including targeted blinding and murder. The request for a criminal investigation to be launched has been filed in Argentina by a group of Iranians with the help of the non-profit Iran Human Rights Documentation Center.
"I hereby indict the following persons for crimes against peace, war crimes and crimes against humanity: Hermann Wilhelm Goring. Rudolf Hess. Joachim von Ribbentrop..." Courtroom 600 in Nuremberg's Palace of Justice was filled to capacity as Chief Prosecutor Robert H. Jackson read out a list of names, one after the other. His list was long. The Major War Crimes Trial against 24 high-ranking representatives of the Nazi state began on November 20, 1945, in the southern German city of Nuremberg.
The previous day, prosecutor Julian Nicholls had demanded the maximum penalty for the enthusiastic, energetic and effective perpetrator of abuses carried out in the western Darfur region. Prosecutors say that among his crimes, Abd-Al-Rahman killed two people with an axe. You literally have an axe murderer before you, Nicholls told the judges in The Hague, as Abd-Al-Rahman looked on. Only a life sentence will serve the interest of retribution and deterrence.
The ministry stated that Abdullah was implicated in committing serious violations against detainees in Sednaya prison, accusing him of being directly responsible for carrying out the executions of detainees inside Sednaya military prison during his tenure as commander of the military police. The prison, outside Damascus, was one of the darkest elements of the al-Assad family rule, which ended after more than 50 years when Bashar al-Assad was overthrown by an offensive in December.
