Horror photos from inside Syria's torture chambers go on display at US Holocaust Museum as war crimes prosecutor calls Bashar al-Assad's regime 'an industrial killing machine not seen since the Nazis'
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The photos in the US Holocaust Museum are part of ...
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Stephen Rapp was passionately devoted to human rights, but he has struggled to get the Obama administration to live up to its own ideals.
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The Syrian military police photographer who defected with tens of thousands of photos of Assad’s war crimes is now in Washington, D.C., to share what he has seen with America.
The Syrian defector known as “Caesar,” who documented and then fled with evidence of Syrian President...
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Stephen Rapp pushed vigorously to prosecute Syrian regime atrocities, was thwarted by legal roadblocks
By Michael Isikoff January 16, 2015 2:40 PM Yahoo News
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Stephen J. Rapp, Ambassador-at-Large for War Crimes Issues, speaking at a pre...
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Congress was shocked Thursday when a Syrian defector recounted how he documented Assad’s killing of over 11,000 innocents. But that’s only the tip of the iceberg, according to ‘Caesar.’
The regime of Syrian President Bashar al Assad is holding 150,000 civilians in custod...
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By MICHAEL R. GORDONOCT. 31, 2014
The Syrian defector and photographer known as Caesar, wearing a blue hooded jacket, listened to an interpreter at a briefing before the House Foreign Affairs Committee in July. Credit Alex Wong/Getty Images
WASHINGTON — Wearin...
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March 18, 2015+
By Bellingcat
Bashar al-Assad and his regime are suspected to be behind the disappearance of many thousands of persons in recent years, many of whom are presumed to have been tortured and killed. Following prisoners’ deaths, a team of forensic photogra...
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The Syrian police defector known as Caesar (wearing a blue hooded jacket),
who smuggled photographs that document the torture and execution of
Syrian dissidents, appeared before the House Foreign Affairs Committee last year
By MICHAEL R. GORDON
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Wrestling With the U.S. to Expose Assad
by: TIM MARK
The body doubles and counter-surveillance were just the start. To bring a documentarian of Assad’s atrocities to Congress, Syrian activists had to grapple with the State Department, too.
In the morning hours of July 31, 2014, a form...
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U.S. Says Europeans Tortured by Assad's Death Machine
By Josh Rogin
The U.S. State Department has concluded that up to 10 European citizens have been tortured and killed while in the custody of the Syrian regime and that evidence of their deaths could be...
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