Trial in the court

She detailed her encounter with Raslan after having been taken to him with her clothes torn from the assault, saying he ordered her blindfold removed, and offered her coffee. The next day, according to a summary of her interactions with Raslan by the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights, she was transferred to another district and released.

Syrian refugee and activist: 'You either leave or you die' Co-plaintiff Wassim Mukdad, a Syrian musician living in Berlin, said he was hit on the soles and heels of his feet and on his knees during interrogations. In their closing statements, the plaintiffs delivered emotional speeches, praising the court and berating Raslan for denying the charges against him.

More than , people are believed to have been abducted, detained or gone missing in Syria, the United Nations has said, and one co-plaintiff criticized the judicial process for excluding enforced disappearances from the charges. The co-plaintiff, Hussein Ghrer, recalled that his captors at the detention center said he would "disappear behind the sun.

He said he was "banished from life without actually dying. In world first, Germany convicts Syrian regime officer of crimes against humanity. Raslan's trial was seen as the culmination of nearly a decade of evidence collected by activists and lawyers seeking to hold the Assad regime accountable for alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity. In the early years of Syria's uprising-turned-war, which began in , volunteers known as "document hunters" smuggled out hundreds of thousands of documents from abandoned regime facilities.

Many said they braved an onslaught of bullets and rockets to smuggle out papers that served as evidence in investigations against the regime. In , a defector codenamed Caesar smuggled tens of thousands of photographs showing prisoners allegedly tortured to death in Assad's jails. The images were also part of the evidence in the landmark trial.

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A daily challenge for crossword fanatics. Love words? Need even more definitions? Each episode followed one case to a pivotal moment when it appeared the guilty would go free and the innocent would suffer a terrible injustice. However, Perry Mason would always save the day by introducing critical new evidence or convincing a witness to testify, bringing new clarity to the case, and leading to justice.

Something that came to be known as a Perry Mason moment. Today, we face a pivotal moment in history as our Constitutional system of democracy is on trial. On January 6, , supporters of the former president stormed the U. Capitol to try and overturn the results of the presidential election, marking the first violent attempt to stop the transfer of power in U.

Numerous investigations of the violent attack are underway and recent polls indicate the court of public opinion is still out. Those polls also indicate a significant minority of Americans, including more than 70 percent of Republicans, have rejected one of the most basic concepts of our democratic system.

Understanding that the executive and legislative branches were inherently political in nature, the framers created the judicial branch to preserve the rule of law and our rights as citizens without undue political influence. Evaluating claims that the election was stolen, Pennsylvania federal appeals court judge Matthew W.

Brann wrote the following of the effort to throw out millions of votes. Instead, this Court has been presented with strained legal arguments without merit and speculative accusations, unpled in the operative complaint and unsupported by evidence.

In the United States of America, this cannot justify the disenfranchisement of a single voter, let alone all the voters of its sixth most populated state. Our judicial system was unanimous in finding there is no credible evidence that fraud, error or anything else affected the results of the election. Numerous independent audits have also confirmed the fact that Joe Biden won the election. In so doing, they have rejected the Constitutional framework of our democracy, which makes the judicial branch the arbiter of such disputes.

If we truly are a government of the people, by the people and for the people, the importance of our role as individual citizens can hardly be overestimated. We have a serious responsibility as citizens to evaluate the evidence and make our judgments known.

Nevertheless, many members of the public today seem more inclined to make decisions based on an emotional response to political theater, complete with outlandish claims made by elected officials to mislead their followers.

The former president of the United States has continued to use abilities he honed during his time on reality television to tell a fabricated story about a rigged election, while the current president stayed relatively silent for a yar. However, on the first anniversary of the attack incited by the former president, current President Joe Biden pointed out that the former president is responsible for the attack on our democracy.

He plainly stated the painfully obvious fact that there would not have been an attack on the U. Capitol on January 6 if the former president had not falsely claimed the election was stolen.