Eastern Ghouta in Damascus, Syria, Feb. 27, 2018. (Credit: Bassam Khabieh/Reuters)
AMSTERDAM — The World Court will hear on Oct. 10 and 11 a request by the Netherlands and Canada that it orders Syria to cease all acts of torture and arbitrary detention, as part of a case alleging the country has breached a UN anti-torture treaty.
The hearing at the Peace Palace, the court's seat in The Hague, will mark the first time an international court has looked at alleged abuses committed in Syria during 12 years of conflict.
Syria’s government and President Bashar al-Assad rejected accusations of torture and extrajudicial killings in a war that the United Nations has said claimed hundreds of thousands of lives.
AMSTERDAM — The World Court will hear
on Oct. 10 and 11 a request by the Netherlands and Canada that
it orders Syria to cease all acts of torture and arbitrary
detention, as part of a case alleging the country has breached a
UN anti-torture treaty.
The hearing at the Peace Palace, the court's seat in The
Hague, will mark the first time an international court...
on Oct. 10 and 11 a request by the Netherlands and Canada that
it orders Syria to cease all acts of torture and arbitrary
detention, as part of a case alleging the country has breached a
UN anti-torture treaty.
The hearing at the Peace Palace, the court's seat in The
Hague, will mark the first time an international court...