Trying ISIS detainees in NE Syria becomes must, lawyers of Syria’s Raqqa
RAQQA, Syria (North Press) – Trying the Islamic State Organization (ISIS) members has become a must and it should be carried out under the UN auspice, lawyers of Raqqa city, north Syria, said yesterday.
The ISIS attack on al-Sina’a prison in Hasakah, northeast Syria, brought the issue of finding an international court for thousands of the ISIS inmates of more than 60 countries in northeast Syria to the surface again.
On January 20, ISIS sleeper cells attacked al-Sina’a prison in Guweiran neighborhood in Hasakah in an attempt to break their fellow inmates out of the prison, according to the announcement of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) General Command.
Establishing an international court to try ISIS detainees needs concerted international efforts, co-chair of Bar Associations in northeast Syria, Mashlab al-Torkan, said.
The Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES) bears alone the major responsibility by keeping and guarding thousands of ISIS detainees in prisons in its held areas, al-Torkan added.
The international community should work to find international court with special rules of procedure and Penal Code in addition to establishing a rehabilitation center to urge the ISIS inmates to abandon the hard-line ideology, he added.
Over 15,000 ISIS inmates of more than 60 countries in addition to those Syrians are detained in prisons in northeast Syria, according to statistics by the AANES.
The international court should be found under international and UN auspice, Khaled al-Hassan, Co-chair of Raqqa Bar Associations, said.
Having the ISIS inmates kept in prisons in northeast Syria burdens the AANES and always coincides with major security threats on the region, according to al-Hassan.
The international community and state actors in the Syrian issue are responsible for finding a legal mechanism to try ISIS inmates in Syria’s northeast, according to him.
Although ISIS is a major threat to Syria and the entire world, the international community and all influential powers in the Syrian issue have turned a deaf ear to the demands of the AANES in finding a solution to the issue since countries refuse to repatriate their nations from northeast Syria.