well having themselves been imprisoned by the regime need for five years darwish for three and a half. in two thousand and two germany adopted the code of crimes against international law meaning it can now try to crimes against humanity war crimes and genocide in germany even if they were committed elsewhere in accordance with the principle of universal jurisdiction this is what it is it is utterly unrealistic right now and to think that syria itself could take the. cases to trial. you can see the principle enables any state in the world to assume jurisdiction and investigate these crimes. all. want to off topic and potentially in germany for example to cross a queue the perpetrator should they enter the country. despite them having no connection to germany despite the crime having been committed in syria and then probably being a syrian national that is the background to the principle of universal jurisdiction . and while bunny is reluctant to take time out from his work he does make exceptions for journalists due to the public safety factor something he learned from decades of case

masson darwish gave testimony to germany's attorney general. it was the first time the journalist was able to speak before judicial officials without fearing his statements could land him in prison. yeah actually that is the law before. the most and what happens in the world that we can send them and so. there is no more impunity and justice. even for the syrian of that order to have been. released to the level as a human being we don't accept this kind of war crime was a crime against and the city and humanity and say no this is not the world a problem for a lot of. muslim darwish was questioned by the german state attorneys over the course of two days he testified on his own three year imprisonment and how he was tortured daily for an entire year you also reported about friends in the same prison who did not survive the ordeal i am a trainee dentist was tortured to death and there are photos of girls whose body and those of over six thousand others. all the syrian military photographer had to take pictures of those tortured to death after ove

we can now cross live to political commentator adel darwish now of course the question on everyone's mind is is teresa mayes government in peril in your opinion. what looks like a bit of a sham i think johnson who has been really giving the push to the leave campaign in two hundred sixteen he is not the kind of a politician who's going to sit at the back benches and through paper airplanes. be a challenge are you hearing from horses the. book confidence of what's actually going to need twenty two committee but actually as we speak now the prime minister's speaking to the one hundred twenty two committees i just get from that there was a lot of banging and i applaud but obviously people standing outside going to hear much so that probably would last another half an hour of saw but if forty is letters. arrived for a challenge then there would be a challenge to hardly though she had a vote of no confidence. as you mentioned boris really has been one of the driving forces behind the bronx process what do you think will happen with that process at this point after his resignation. i actua

the route right now we can speak darwish founder of the syrian center for media and freedom of expression he's also a former political prisoner who was jailed by the assad government for more than three years he's joining us live now from paris thank you very much for talking to us do you think that the families of these people who have now been deemed dead by by virtue of heart attack or a virus do you think their families will ever find out the truth. thank you very much actually has been there and all of us know the real story those people. under torture and also through the military field court. and the lety thousands of syrian nobody. believe the thousands of us suddenly have heard that in the same period this is not be accepted. for sure and. a lot of investigation a lot of legal war we need to sublists all these details and we need to be sure that this cases will not be forgotten or not be ignored. a huge mass. and crime against humanity for the last seven years done from the regime especially within thousands of syrian family tell us tell us a little bit about your experience beca