Brutal fall: Torture general in Syria after a change of power!

Brutal fall: Torture general in Syria after a change of power!

The Syrian Revolution took an important step to clarify the atrocities under the former regime of Bashar al-Assad on December 26, 2024: General Mohammed Kanjo Hassan, who was responsible for numerous death judgments in the notorious Saidnaja prison. This brutal prison general, who headed the military justice from 2011 to 2014 and is one of the main responsible for the torture and murder of prisoners, fell into the hands of the security forces of the new Syrian leadership in Chirbet al-Maasa. This reports the Krone .

The arrest was only carried out after failed attempts, in which three representatives of the old government and 14 security forces were previously killed. Hassan is attributed to having sentenced “thousands of people” to death during his service. According to the unification of the prisoners and missing persons of the Saidnaja prison (ADMSP), an estimated 30,000 people have been imprisoned in the military prison since 2011, many of which are still missing. The affected and their relatives desperately look for the truth and demand that the offenses of the former rulers have to be informed and those responsible have to be held accountable, such as the n-tv reported.

justice for the victims

The arrest of Hassan is evaluated by the newly shaped transitional government as an important step towards justice and processing the crimes from the time of the Assad regime. The national coalition of the Syrian revolutionary and opposition powers describes the arrest as a significant success, while in Damascus relatives gather in order to draw attention to the fate of their loved ones. Her demands are clear: "I don't want an unknown grave for my son, I want the truth," was one of the many messages that were brought to the new rulers.