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Inside the Raslan Trial: Guards played the music of Fayrouz amidst the sound of beatings

SJAC’s fourteenth trial monitoring report details day 34 of the trial of Anwar Raslan and Eyad Al Gharib in Koblenz, Germany. During the proceedings, a woman who had been detained in Al-Khatib identified Raslan as an interrogator and talked about meeting him in Jordan after he defected. The witness describes the beatings that detainees would receive and recounts stories of rape, sexual harassment and torture from other detainees. Although she said that Raslan did not beat her and was sympathetic.