Canada and the Netherlands sue Syria

In a written statement from the International Court of Justice (ICJ), Canada and the Netherlands filed a lawsuit on June 8, 2023 alleging that the crimes committed in Syria violated the United Nations Convention against Torture and Other Treatment or Treatment Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading. Specified punishment.

According to the statement, in the joint Canada-Netherlands lawsuit request, “Syria has repeatedly violated international law by continuing its violent interventions in civil actions since 2011, even after the situation escalated into armed conflict.” .

THE JUSTIFICATIONS OF THE CLAIMS HAVE BEEN CLEAR

Among the reasons for the demand, the two countries are required to “use torture and other cruel methods, inhuman and degrading treatment and punishment, as well as the atrocious treatment of the detainees, the maintenance of the detainees in subhuman conditions, the enforced disappearance, sexual and gender-based violence-violence based on violence and violence against children’ are among the international violations attributed to .

Although Canada and the Netherlands brought an ICJ case against Syria because Syria was also a party to the 1984 UN Convention on Torture, the Court was asked to order an injunction against Syria on the grounds that the existing violations continued.

Pursuant to the Court’s rules, applications containing a request for injunctive relief are processed before all lawsuits.