[imc-presse] PRESS CONFERENCE Invitation: Torture in Syria – Sweden’s Role in the Struggle against Impunity

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INVITATION to PRESS CONFERENCE 

Please find the Arabic version of the invitation here.
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Torture in Syria – 
Sweden’s Role in the Struggle against Impunity

20 FEBRUARY 2019 at 10am
at CIVIL RIGHTS DEFENDERS’ HEAD OFFICE, Sergels torg 12, 12th floor,
STOCKHOLM

*with*

Anwar al-Bunni, Executive Director, Syrian Center for Legal Research and
Studies (SCLSR
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Mazen Darwish, President, Syrian Center for Media and Freedom of Expression
(SCM
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John Stauffer, Legal Director and Executive Deputy Director, Civil Rights
Defenders (CRD
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Patrick Kroker, Head of Syria project, European Center for Constitutional
and Human Rights (ECCHR
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A person who commits, orders, or is complicit in torture must face legal
consequences. In Syria, however, there is absolute impunity if torture
allegations are linked to the intelligence services of the Assad
government. Also on an international level there is little prospect of
accountability. What remains to Syrian torture survivors is the way to
courts in third countries.

In Sweden, this could be made possible through the principle of universal
jurisdiction, which allows Swedish authorities to investigate and conduct
judicial proceedings in relation to international crimes such as torture.
In other European countries such as Germany and France, criminal complaints
by Syrian torture survivors have contributed to arrest warrants against key
figures within Assad’s torture system
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Together with its Syrian partners from the Syrian Center for Legal Research
and Studies
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, the Syrian Center for Media and Freedom of Expression
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 and the Caesar Files Group, the Swedish organization Civil Rights
Defenders
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 and Berlin-based ECCHR
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 will explain possible legal means and avenues in Sweden to tackle grave
human rights violations committed in Syria. 

*The press conference will be held in Swedish and English. *
*PLEASE REGISTER VIA: press at crd.org
mailto:press at crd.org
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Contact:
CIVIL RIGHTS DEFENDERS: +46 (0)8 545 277 30, E-Mail: press at crd.org
mailto:press at crd.org

ECCHR – Anabel Bermejo: +49 (0)30 - 69819797, E-Mail: presse at ecchr.eu
mailto:presse at ecchr.eu

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