Published : 25-05-2022
Dutch police arrested on Tuesday, May 24, a Palestinian refugee from his house in Kerkrade village over suspicions of involvement in war crimes and crimes against humanity.
The refugee was a resident of AlNeirab Camp, in the northern Syrian province of Aleppo. He was born on April 18, 1986. He has been living in The Netherlands since 2020.
The arrestee dropped out of school (8th grade) and practiced several jobs. With the beginning of uprisings in Syria, he was involved in campaigns to suppress protesters at gunpoint. In 2013, he joined the pro-regime Liwaa AlQuds militia.
The refugee has been accused of selling heavy weapons to ISIS militiamen and Russian weapons to Kurdish gunmen, resulting in altercations with Liwaa AlQuds commander Mohamed Al’Asaid.
AGPS has been told that the arrestee had been running warehouses of stolen items. Weapons, ammunition, and rocket-propelled grenades were also spotted at his house. A worker was injured as a result of a blast at the refugee’s house in 2016. Shortly after, Liwaa AlQuds issued an arrest warrant against him over charges of extra-judicial execution and theft.
In 2020, he fled war-torn Syria to Turkey before he reached The Netherlands through Greek borders.
The Syrian Center for Media and Freedom of Expression said that based on the legal complaint it had submitted, the Dutch Police International Crimes Team arrested the 34-year-old Palestinian-Syrian suspect (M) and referred him to the investigative judge on charges related to suspected war crimes and crimes against humanity in Syria in the past years.
The complaint file submitted by the Center included a set of evidence proving that the suspect committed a number of violations which can be considered war crimes and crimes against humanity, including five testimonies of witnesses, three of whom were direct victims of the suspect’s crimes.
The complaint also included lists of victims who were documented in Violations Documentation Center (VDC) databases, in addition to an investigation prepared by the center’s litigation team, and a set of visual evidence and information from open sources.
Lawyer Tariq Hokan, director of the strategic litigation project at the Center (SCM), had indicated that the strategic litigation team had begun investigations into the suspect’s file in June 2020, after receiving the news of his arrival in the Netherlands. This was accompanied by preliminary information that he committed grave crimes against the Syrians, which were received from the direct victims of the suspect.
The court had announced that the accused would be questioned by the investigating judge in The Hague on Friday, May 27, 2022. The case is one of five files previously submitted by the Syrian Center for Media and Freedom of Expression to the Dutch authorities regarding possible war crimes suspects in the Syrian Arab Republic.
Dutch police arrested on Tuesday, May 24, a Palestinian refugee from his house in Kerkrade village over suspicions of involvement in war crimes and crimes against humanity.
The refugee was a resident of AlNeirab Camp, in the northern Syrian province of Aleppo. He was born on April 18, 1986. He has been living in The Netherlands since 2020.
The arrestee dropped out of school (8th grade) and practiced several jobs. With the beginning of uprisings in Syria, he was involved in campaigns to suppress protesters at gunpoint. In 2013, he joined the pro-regime Liwaa AlQuds militia.
The refugee has been accused of selling heavy weapons to ISIS militiamen and Russian weapons to Kurdish gunmen, resulting in altercations with Liwaa AlQuds commander Mohamed Al’Asaid.
AGPS has been told that the arrestee had been running warehouses of stolen items. Weapons, ammunition, and rocket-propelled grenades were also spotted at his house. A worker was injured as a result of a blast at the refugee’s house in 2016. Shortly after, Liwaa AlQuds issued an arrest warrant against him over charges of extra-judicial execution and theft.
In 2020, he fled war-torn Syria to Turkey before he reached The Netherlands through Greek borders.
The Syrian Center for Media and Freedom of Expression said that based on the legal complaint it had submitted, the Dutch Police International Crimes Team arrested the 34-year-old Palestinian-Syrian suspect (M) and referred him to the investigative judge on charges related to suspected war crimes and crimes against humanity in Syria in the past years.
The complaint file submitted by the Center included a set of evidence proving that the suspect committed a number of violations which can be considered war crimes and crimes against humanity, including five testimonies of witnesses, three of whom were direct victims of the suspect’s crimes.
The complaint also included lists of victims who were documented in Violations Documentation Center (VDC) databases, in addition to an investigation prepared by the center’s litigation team, and a set of visual evidence and information from open sources.
Lawyer Tariq Hokan, director of the strategic litigation project at the Center (SCM), had indicated that the strategic litigation team had begun investigations into the suspect’s file in June 2020, after receiving the news of his arrival in the Netherlands. This was accompanied by preliminary information that he committed grave crimes against the Syrians, which were received from the direct victims of the suspect.
The court had announced that the accused would be questioned by the investigating judge in The Hague on Friday, May 27, 2022. The case is one of five files previously submitted by the Syrian Center for Media and Freedom of Expression to the Dutch authorities regarding possible war crimes suspects in the Syrian Arab Republic.
