A Syrian rebel leader said today that no one involved in the torture of prisoners will be pardoned, after thousands of prisoners were freed from the infamous prisons of ousted President Bashar al-Assad.
"We will not grant amnesty to people involved in the torture and elimination of prisoners and we will prosecute them in our country," said Abu Muhamad al-Jolani, who now asks to be called by his real name, Ahmad al-Shareh.
He asked other countries to hand over all criminals who fled Syria so that they would not be brought to justice.
The Syrian government fell on December 8, marking the end of 50 years of rule by the Assad family, after a surprise rebel offensive and entry into the capital, Damascus.
The rebel coalition that entered Damascus is led by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, a radical Islamist group that was formerly an offshoot of al-Qaeda.
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