International court of justice asked to make urgent ruling against regime for ‘abhorrent treatment’ of its people
People outside the international court of justice, in The Hague, display pictures of people whom they say ‘disappeared’ in Syria.People outside the international court of justice, in The Hague, display pictures of people whom they say ‘disappeared’ in Syria.Syria has tortured tens of thousands of its people and maintains a “widespread and pervasive” system of “abhorrent treatment”, world court judges have heard at the first international case related to the civil war in the country.
Canada and the Netherlands have asked the ICJ to “urgently” demand that Syria stop all torture and arbitrary detention, open prisons to outside inspectors and provide information to families about the fate of their loved ones. Ahmad Helmi, a former prisoner who is now an activist, said: “I was in prison in Syria for three years and I know for sure that torture is happening around the clock. It’s happening around the hour.”
Balkees Jarrah, from Human Rights Watch, said the ICJ needed to act “to prevent further abuses against Syrians, who continue to suffer under nightmarish conditions and whose lives are in serious jeopardy”. Russia and China blocked a draft UN security council resolution to refer the situation in Syria to the ICC in 2014.
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