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Rights groups ask Germany to investigate Syria’s use of chemical weapons

The criminal complaint covers attacks on rebel territory in Eastern Ghouta in 2013 and Khan Sheikhoun in 2017.
This picture taken on April 14, 2018 shows the wreckage of a building described as part of the Scientific Studies and Research Centre (SSRC) compound in the Barzeh district, north of Damascus, during a press tour organised by the Syrian information ministry.
The United States, Britain and France launched strikes against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's regime early on April 14 in response to an alleged chemical weapons attack after mulling military action for nearly a week. Syrian state news agency SANA r

A group of human rights organizations have submitted a criminal complaint in Germany on behalf of chemical attack victims in Syria, asking federal prosecutors to investigate and eventually arrest those responsible for some of the deadliest gas attacks in the country’s civil war.

On Monday, the Syrian Archive, the Open Society Justice Initiative, and the Syrian Center for Media and Freedom of Expression submitted to the German federal public prosecutor a dossier of evidence they say confirms the Syrian government’s use of the deadly nerve agent sarin on its own people.

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