Netherlands looks for witnesses of ISIS crimes in Damascus
QAMISHLI, Syria (North Press) – Netherlands’ authorities are looking for witnesses to help connect at least a dozen crimes in Syria between 2013 and 2018 to a suspected Syrian citizen who was arrested in Zuid-Holland, Netherlands.
The suspect, nicknamed Abu Khaled al-Amni, applied for asylum in the Netherlands in 2019 and he was arrested in Arkel in January 2023, as he is still in custody.
Al-Amni, 37-year-old, was accused of being a high-ranking member of both the Islamic State (ISIS) and Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (formerly al-Nusra Front), according to the Dutch Public Prosecution Service (OM).
He is involved in committing war crimes in Syria between 2013 and 2018, the OM said more than a year ago.
The police are looking for witnesses of beheadings and torture by ISIS in Damascus between September 2013 and the end of 2014.
Investigators believe that al-Amni was involved in the beheading of at least 12 people at a power plant in the town of Yalda, on the southern outskirts of Damascus, in mid-January 2014.
The police in Netherlands think that al-Amini is involved in torturing at least two people before executing them.