MESOP EXCLUSIVE : GERMAN GOVERNMENT DON’T WANT TO SPEAK WITH HIM : Key witness of Assad’s torture photos is a refugee in Germany: Zaman Al Wasl

Zaman Al Wasl | 2015-10-15 – One of Syrian regime soldiers who involved in mass torture photos published early 2014 is a refugee in Germany, according to Zaman Al Wasl sources.Mohamed Ahmed Tafankji has entered Germany 25 days ago and now lives with his mother and two brothers in Hermann-leichtlin-strabe camp.

Tafankji, who was doing his compulsory military service, is a key witness for the atrocious photos of mass torture by Syrian security that had been taken in Hospital 601 in Mezzah neighborhood of Damascus. The leaked photos illustrate apparent actions of serious international crimes committed in the chambers of security services against 11,000 detainees, according to human rights advocates.

In mid 2013, a team of war crimes prosecutors and forensic experts, had analyzed 55 thousand digital photos taken and provided by a Syrian defector codenamed “Caesar,” who, along with his family, is now living outside Syria in an undisclosed location, according to CNN. The team members shared their findings in a joint exclusive with CNN’s “Amanpour” and The Guardian newspaper on January 20 2014. The photos showed hundreds of lifeless bodies with signs of starvation, brutal beatings, strangulation and other forms of torture and killing.“Crime of The Century’ photos are linked to war crime report made last year by a team of internationally recognized war crimes prosecutors and forensic experts. Sir Desmond de Silva, the former chief prosecutor of Sierra Leone special court, in interview with CNN, likened the images to those of Holocaust survivors and Nazi death camps after World War II.” Syria is not a member of the International Criminal Court. The only way the court could prosecute someone from Syria would be through a referral from the United Nations Security Council.. www.mesop.de