{"id":57793,"date":"2026-04-08T13:36:06","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T13:36:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/57793\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T13:36:06","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T13:36:06","slug":"trial-of-syrian-man-accused-of-torture-during-syrias-civil-war-begins-in-the-netherlands-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/57793\/","title":{"rendered":"Trial of Syrian man accused of torture during Syria&#8217;s civil war begins in the Netherlands"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"SFPGROXXKNFUNPO6PPXWGGLYVU\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">THE HAGUE, Netherlands \u2014 A Syrian man accused of crimes against humanity denied dozens of charges of torture and sexual violence in the opening of his trial in the Netherlands on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"PU5S6L5RXNDNDED4YXI663LCUU\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">The 58-year-old, identified only as Rafiq al Q. due to Dutch privacy regulations, claimed he was being conspired against and refuted accusations of being a supporter of <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/syria-bashar-assad-war-1468a97ff95bb782f5933856d99c9a8d\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">former Syrian Presdient Bashar Assad<\/a> . Prosecutors at the District Court of The Hague said he was a member of the pro-Assad National Defence Force and worked as the lead interrogator for the paramilitary group during Syria\u2019s civil war.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"THE HAGUE, Netherlands \u2014 A Syrian man accused of crimes against humanity denied dozens of charges of torture&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":57794,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[2371,2961,22456,197,3375,18287,768,95,7081,22457,200,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-57793","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-syria","8":"tag-2024-2026-mideast-wars","9":"tag-courts","10":"tag-eu-netherlands-syria-torture-trial","11":"tag-general-news","12":"tag-indictments","13":"tag-legal-proceedings","14":"tag-military-and-defense","15":"tag-syria","16":"tag-torture","17":"tag-trials","18":"tag-war-and-unrest","19":"tag-world-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116369357766954170","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57793\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}