Security operatives drawn from the Nigeria Police Force (NPF), the Department of State Services (DSS), and the Military have rescued seven abducted persons in Kaduna State.
Disclosing this in a statement on Sunday, the spokesperson of the FCT Police Command, Josephine Adeh, said operatives dislodged a criminal camp in a high-risk, cross-border security raid in the Ushafa area, Bwari Area Council of Abuja.
She said the Command received a distress report on December 5, indicating that armed men had invaded a community in Ushafa and abducted several residents. In a swift reaction, a combined team comprising operatives of the FCT Anti-Kidnapping Unit, the Nigerian Army, and the Department of State Services (DSS) mobilised to the area on 6th December 2025 to begin a coordinated search operation.
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“Following a distress call received by the Police on December 5, 2025, reporting that heavily armed kidnappers had invaded a community in Ushafa, Abuja, and whisked away several residents under the cover of darkness, a joint security task force made up of operatives from the FCT Anti-Kidnapping Unit, the Nigerian Army and the Department of State Services (DSS) swung into action on December 6, launching a coordinated manhunt for the abductors,” the statement read.
“Guided by credible intelligence, the security team traced the suspects’ movements through the outskirts of the Mpape community and onward into settlements linking the Kagarko Local Government Area of Kaduna State.
“On sighting the advancing operatives, the kidnappers opened fire in a desperate attempt to escape, leading to a fierce gun battle. The security forces responded with overwhelming firepower, forcing the criminals to abandon one of the kidnapped victims during their retreat.”
Adeh, a Superintendent of Police, said, “displaying uncommon courage and endurance, the joint security team continued the chase for more than seven gruelling hours across treacherous mountains and dense forest paths, determined to dismantle the criminal network completely.
“The pursuit eventually led the operatives to the kidnappers’ main hideout deep inside Kweri Forest in Kaduna State, where another heavy exchange of gunfire took place, breaking the gang’s resistance and forcing them to flee in disarray.
“A thorough sweep of the forest camp resulted in the rescue of six additional victims, bringing the total number of freed captives to seven.
“The victims were immediately evacuated to a hospital, where they are presently receiving medical attention and are reported to be in stable condition.”
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Lando Norris has become Britain’s 11th Formula 1 world champion, and delivered on a destiny that seemed set since he was a young boy.
The 26-year-old, whose father Adam is a multimillionaire who made his fortune as a pensions trader, started racing karts at the age of eight, and was on pole position for his first national event.
Norris, who has dual Belgian nationality through his mother Cisca, was born in Bristol and grew up in Glastonbury. Educated at Millfield in Somerset, as his career blossomed, it became increasingly hard to find time to attend school, and there was a fair bit of home tutoring involved.
‘Everyone tells me he’s the greatest thing since sliced bread’
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Norris has won the title in his seventh season, and spent his entire F1 career with McLaren, with whom he has kept faith as they have grown from also-rans to F1’s leading team.
His boss there is American Zak Brown, McLaren Racing’s chief executive officer, who has been involved with Norris since before either were at the team.
Norris’ career was funded by his father until he reached F1, and he was guided through his karting years by his manager Mark Berryman.
But when Norris took his first steps in car racing, they did not have the necessary contacts. They turned to Brown – then the boss of a sports marketing agency called JMI, and well known in F1 as a deal maker and sponsor finder.
Initially, Brown felt “this is not what I do”. But Norris’ team were persistent. Brown says: “I thought: ‘All right, everyone tells me he is the greatest thing since sliced bread, maybe I can help.'”
When Brown started paying attention, he realised Norris was the real deal “pretty much right away”.
He was not the only one. Stephanie Carlin started working with Norris as he made his first steps in the junior categories aged 15, continued to do so until he made it to F1 four years later, and is now McLaren’s F1 business operations director.
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‘Welcome to Formula 1’
Norris was almost certainly too good not to make it to F1, but his path was eased considerably when Brown joined McLaren in 2016, a couple of years after he started working with Norris.
In January 2018, Brown paired 18-year-old Norris with then McLaren driver Fernando Alonso, an F1 legend, in the Daytona 24 Hours sportscar race in his United Autosports team.
Norris gave himself the target of setting a faster lap than Alonso – and achieved it. He stunned people with his pace in the wet at night before the car eventually retired.
“Fernando Alonso, one of the best racing drivers in the world, Lando was his match,” Brown says. “Cold tyres, middle of the night Daytona, if you asked Richard Dean, who ran them, who was better, he wouldn’t know.”
When Alonso announced he was quitting F1 at the end of 2018, Norris was the obvious replacement, and McLaren started giving him experience in practice sessions.
Having proved faster than one McLaren race driver, Stoffel Vandoorne, in his first outing, his next was at Monza, with Alonso in the other car.
Brown recalls: “They’re swapping times. Fernando has just set his time, so he’s done, and obviously paying attention to what times Lando is doing. He’s asking.
“We come on the radio and we go: ‘Fernando, Lando’s on a lap, get out of his way.’
“First sector, same 10th. Second sector, Lando is half a 10th up. Third sector, on the radio, Fernando: ‘Sorry, I didn’t see him.’ Lando: ‘Fernando just blocked me!’ And we all just giggled on the pit wall, like, ‘Welcome to Formula 1.’
‘You are a star – a rock star’
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A few races later, Norris jokingly served Alonso a cup of tea during a wet practice session at the US Grand Prix in Austin. Soon, he was the apprentice no longer.
In his debut season in 2019, Norris was immediately a match for his team-mate Carlos Sainz, who had four years’ experience, and he destroyed then seven-time race-winner Daniel Ricciardo when the Australian joined the team in 2021.
By then, Alonso had returned to F1 after two years in other categories. He and Norris swapped helmets. The Spaniard wrote on the one he gave to Norris: “You are a star – a rock star.”
Norris quickly became a fan favourite, with his diffident-but-jokey personality, and willingness to show his true self on social media. His public profile built through the pandemic as he live-streamed himself playing video games, and he used that to build his own gaming and lifestyle brand.
Brown says: “He used to be very shy and he still kind of is a quiet, shy guy in his own way. Even though he kind of comes off as extroverted, he’s actually not. But as he’s become more mature, I have seen him become more comfortable in his skin.
How Norris became front-runner
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Norris based himself in Woking, the location of the McLaren factory, when he first graduated to F1, the better to integrate with the team, but after three years he took the traditional F1 driver’s life decision and moved to Monaco for financial reasons.
By then, it had long been obvious Norris’ talent marked him out as one of the leading lights of the new generation of drivers, along with his compatriot George Russell and Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc.
But it has taken time for Norris to establish himself as a front-runner in F1.
In their first few years together, the McLaren car was not competitive, although Norris came close to a win with a superb performance in Russia in 2021, only to misjudge the incoming weather and not pit for wet tyres in a late downpour.
Norris kept the faith, signing two contract extensions, despite interest from Red Bull. That, Brown says, was down to “relationships, transparency, visibility to what we were doing. He’s comfortable here. This has been his family since day one.”
‘I just could not believe his development’
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Carlin joined McLaren at the beginning of 2024. It had been more than five years since she had worked with Norris in F2.
“I sat in engineering and heard him giving feedback,” she says, “and I was blown away. I just could not believe the development of this teenager I’d known, a very successful F2 driver and champion in F3 and F4. It was incredible.”
Those first five years in F1 had turned a boy into a man, and a promising driver full of potential into one of the best in the world. But there was still learning to be done.
After a slow start to 2024, a development to the McLaren car at the Miami Grand Prix in May made the team absolutely competitive. Norris took his maiden win that weekend, and later three further victories as it began to look as if he could challenge for the title.
A year on, Norris’ development has continued apace.
“Lando has always been really open about what he feels his weaknesses are as much as what he feels his strengths are,” Carlin says.
“That’s one of the things that’s attracted the most negative publicity around him because he’s been so open about that. And because he’s open about it, people see it as a weakness. But actually what it’s turning out to be is his absolute strength.
“He’s used it as a development tool. He’s used it throughout his career and then he’s really used it this year because at the start of the season he was struggling to adapt to the characteristics of the car and he looked like he was, to the rest of the world, questioning himself.
Some stumbles, then a surge to the title
Norris started this year with a win in Australia, but after that the first part of the season was a struggle. His team-mate Oscar Piastri had progressed significantly through some assiduous work with the team over the winter, and Norris was not feeling the car in the way he needed to be quick.
Developments over the winter had made the new car faster, but introduced what the drivers called a “numbness” to the front axle, which was preventing Norris’ ability to exploit the car.
A tweak to the front suspension was developed to improve Norris’ feel, and introduced in Canada in June.It was not an overnight fix, and was relatively minor in nature, but undoubtedly after that the trend line of Norris’ trajectory was a positive one.
Despite falling 34 points behind Piastri at the end of August, Norris has clinched the title just nine races later.
Norris attributes his resilience to the “good group of people around me, to support me, to direct me, help me, whether it’s been a good weekend or a bad weekend, people who always have my best interest at heart and are there to give me the right mentality when I’m down.
“Two reasons I’ve done well are: one, I’ve done a better job, so I’m performing better more often; and two, I’m not always more positive, but I’m more positive and less negative about when I have bad days and bad sessions. And I believe in myself a bit more that I can turn it around.
“A lot of work away from the track with different people. A lot of work at the track. But it all starts with my team around me.”
Stella has a phrase for this. He calls it “acknowledging the gap to perfection” – a description he has used for Alonso’s approach to his career. It means that however good a driver is, they look to their weaknesses, and work on mitigating them. It is a constantly evolving process.
F1 drivers generally don’t talk about this stuff, and if they do it tends to be in an allusive manner that tries to hide any weaknesses.
Carlin says: “He doesn’t see that as a weakness because he’s such an authentic, genuine person. It’s not even in his nature to hide that process.
“To some extent, you’ve got to be in the environment to challenge you. And although Lando’s had a few seasons in F1 now, he’s not had multiple seasons in condition to be a championship contender.
“So he’s continued to develop through his F1 career, but to some extent the rate of your development is constrained by the extent of your potential. And if your potential is limited by various factors, such as your car and relative pace to other teams, then that has an impact on how far you can develop at what pace.
“But when he’s been delivered with a car capable of challenging for the championship, his own development has accelerated to match that.
“So it’s with those great opportunities and those greatest challenges that his development rate has actually sped up, to kind of mirror-image that.”
McLaren’s Lando Norris won his first Formula 1 drivers’ championship by finishing third in the season-ending Abu Dhabi Grand Prix.
The 26-year-old won the title by two points from Red Bull’s Max Verstappen, who won the race to take his eighth victory of the year, one more than the Briton and his McLaren team-mate Oscar Piastri.
McLaren were always in control of a race packed with tension even though Verstappen was on course for victory from the first lap, because Piastri finished second and was in a position to help Norris if needed.
Norris becomes the 11th British F1 world champion at the end of his seventh season in F1, a year that he started slowly but in which he came on strong in the second half of the year.
And it is McLaren’s first drivers’ and constructors’ title double since 1998.
“I’ve not cried in a while and I didn’t think I would cry but I did,” said a jubilant Norris.
“I mean, it feels amazing, I now know what Max feels like. I want to congratulate Max and Oscar, my two biggest competitors the whole season.
“It’s been a pleasure to race against both of them and an honour, I’ve learned a lot from both of them as well.
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While the McLaren has been the fastest car on balance this season, Norris’ championship will be given added credibility by the fact that he won it in the face of a tough challenge from Verstappen, who is widely acknowledged as the finest driver of his generation.
Norris cried in his car on the slowing-down lap as he accepted the congratulations of his team and thanked them and his family for getting him into a place to fulfil his lifetime ambition.
The key stories of the race were:
McLaren and Norris deal with the pressure
As the race finally started after a nervy weekend for McLaren, the pressure was high after the team had suffered two difficult races in the grands prix preceding this one.
A double disqualification in Las Vegas followed by a botched strategy that handed Verstappen victory in Qatar had upped the stakes for McLaren at the end of a year in which they won the constructors’ title with six races to go.
Norris took a cautious approach to the start, not engaging with Verstappen as the Dutchman aggressively defended his lead from pole position on the run to the first corner.
Halfway around the lap, Piastri swept around the outside of Norris at the long left-hander of Turn Nine, an apparent strategic move to bring the Australian into play for the victory against Verstappen.
Piastri was on hard tyres and Verstappen and Norris on medium, so the plan was to run long and give Red Bull something to consider and reduce the risk of him backing up the field to Norris’ disadvantage.
Norris was left to battle with Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc for third place but was always in control.
Norris resists Red Bull’s Tsunoda tactics
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The nerviest moment for Norris came after his first pit stop, when he came up behind Tsunoda in a battle for third place.
Red Bull had started the Japanese driver on hard tyres for the express purpose of trying to affect the race of Verstappen’s rival, in the way his predecessor Sergio Perez had with Lewis Hamilton in the controversial decider here in 2021.
Red Bull made it clear that he “knew what to do” after being told to do everything he could to hold up Norris.
He weaved down the straight on lap 23, but Norris committed for the inside, and kept this foot hard down even as he was edged slightly off track.
The incident was put under investigation by the stewards and the question was whether Norris would receive a penalty for overtaking off the track.
The stewards took no further action on that charge, but did penalise Tsunoda for making too many moves in defence.
A new book has unearthed the dark side of drug taking at Keith Richards’ former home, Villa Nellcote on the Cote D’Azur.
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The Rolling Stones were on the Cote D’Azur in 1971, escaping high taxes under Harold Wilson’s Labour government. Now a 2025 version of the book The Curious Chronicles of Villa Nellcote, reveals how heroin and cannabis were used by Keith Richards, his first wife Anita Pallenberg and The Rolling Stones’ late saxophonist Bobby Keys, while recording there.
Author Geir Hornes has seen a 1,000 page French police report claiming that a group of young French men – nicknamed Les Cowboys – delivered drugs to Nellcote each week.
Marshall Chess, former president of Rolling Stones Records, says in the book: “Drugs were part of the backdrop. Some nights, Mick Jagger was disgusted.”
Former model and actress Gretchen Parsons Carpenter recalls her summer visit to Nellcote. Gretchen, 73, whose husband Gram – a former member of The Byrds and friend of Keith Richards – died aged just 26 in 1973 following an overdose, says: “We did not think in terms of consequences. The concept of “rehab” hadn’t even been invented yet. The problem was, those fun drugs quickly turned into not-so-fun.”
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Author Geir says the French police report is still shrouded in secrecy, but tells of a police raid on December 14, 1971 – by which time The Stones had moved on to LA. Hornes says: “In the staff house, the police claim they uncover narcotics – enough to constitute a serious drug case.
“The detainees are young, aged between 19 and 24. Referred to as “Les Cowboys”, they are suspected of procuring, transporting, offering, and acquiring drugs for Keith Richards, Anita Pallenberg and saxophonist Bobby Keys. When Les Cowboys are released, Richards is warned about a trap awaiting him if he returns to Nellcote.”
Five French locals were later convicted for bringing drugs to Nellcote. Stones saxophonist Bobby Keys, who died in 2014, was handed a four-month suspended sentence and fined for procuring hashish.
Keith Richards and Anita Pallenberg were convicted in absentia for illicit drug use and received one-year suspended sentences plus fines. After an appeal, Richards, Pallenberg and Keys were handed a two-year ban from entering France.
It’s certainly not the first time that Keith Richards has been associated with drugs. In 2007, Richards confessed to mixing his father’s ashes with cocaine and snorting them, saying: “It was the strangest thing I’ve tried to snort. But it went down pretty well”.
And earlier this year a rock promoter revealed secrets about The Rolling Stones during their wild days – comparing sharing a private jet with Keith Richards and Ronnie Wood to a chemical factory with an “endless” supply of drugs.
Paul Rappaport was senior vice-president of rock promotion at Columbia Records, and during his thirty-three-year career he played a big role in the careers of some of the biggest stars in the business.
Rappaport recalls doing lines of cocaine with Richards within minutes of meeting him, but things went up a notch when he flew on their private jet. Recalling those days, he says: “It was total debauchery.
“They would take these large chunks of coke, put them into professional green plastic laboratory grinders, and crush the stuff into extremely fine powder. A couple of tray tables could be seen piled high with weed, blow, and all kinds of liquor. Didn’t sleep much for seven days and nights straight.”
The updated version of The Curious Chronicles of Villa Nellcote can be purchased via www.nellcotechronicles.com
Ziad Mahmoud al-Amayiri sat with photographs of his 10 lost family members laid out in front of him.
“There are two options: either the government gives me justice, or I take justice myself.”
Al-Amayiri’s threat is directed at one man: Fadi Saqr.
Saqr was a commander of the National Defence Forces (NDF), a militia loyal to Bashar al-Assad that was accused of atrocities like the 2013 Tadamon massacre, where, according to local Syrian officials, activists and leaked videos, dozens of people were led to a pit and shot.
However, Saqr denies any links to what happened in Tadamon. He told The New York Times that he was not the NDF’s leader at the time.
But al-Amayiri insists Saqr should be behind bars for the disappearance of his loved ones, who he says were arrested by NDF fighters in 2013.
Instead, Saqr is walking free.
Hassan Soufan, a member of the government-appointed Committee for Civil Peace, says Saqr was “granted safe passage” by Syria’s new leadership “at the beginning of the liberation”.
Soufan said Saqr’s release was part of a strategy to calm tensions because of his links to Alawite groups in the region.
Photographs of some of al-Amayiri’s family members he believes were arrested and ultimately disappeared by the pro-Assad National Defence Forces [Harriet Tatham/Al Jazeera]
“No one can deny that this safe passage contributed to averting bloodshed,” said Soufan.
But that was not enough to satisfy many Syrians, especially in Tadamon, where residents demanded that Saqr be tried in court.
“How was the government able to forgive Fadi Saqr with the blood of our families?” said al-Amayiri, speaking of the 10 loved ones he has lost.
“I don’t think they will be able to hold him accountable after that.”
Syria’s fragile peace
A year on since the fall of Bashar al-Assad, Syria’s new leadership is dealing with the very real danger of people feeling frustrated by justice efforts being delayed or denied.
After taking power, interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa said he would prioritise “achieving civil peace” and “prosecuting criminals who spilt Syrian blood … through genuine transitional justice”.
But the last year has been marked by sectarian fighting – and there has been a marked rise in so-called revenge killings.
As of November 2025, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) reported that 1,301 people had died in what it described as “retaliatory actions” since the fall of the Assad regime in December 2024.
These statistics do not include the people killed during the violent clashes on either the Syrian coast in March or in Suwayda in July.
Syria’s peace remains fragile, with more than 1,300 deaths linked to ‘retaliatory actions’, according to the Syrian Observatory [Harriet Tatham/Al Jazeera]
The coastal massacres alone resulted in the death of 1,400 people, mainly civilians, according to a United Nations report.
The clashes in Suwayda, triggered by fighting between Druze and Bedouin communities, killed hundreds, the majority of them Druze.
In his first interview with an English-language outlet, Abdel Basit Abdel Latif, head of the National Commission for Transitional Justice, acknowledged the risks of stalled justice.
“It is certain that any Syrian citizen will feel that if the transitional justice process does not start properly, they will resort to their own ways, which is something we do not wish for,” Abdel Latif said.
Ibrahim al-Assil from the Atlantic Council says it is an example of a conundrum often seen in transitional justice: pursuing justice versus keeping the peace.
“Which one comes first? It’s very important to realise that they do need to work hand in hand, but things are never ideal.”
Government forces monitor key roads and checkpoints in and around Damascus in an effort to maintain peace and security [Harriet Tatham/Al Jazeera]
Transitional justice in Syria
The government has set up two bodies to oversee transitional justice.
One, headed by Abdel Latif, tackles transitional justice more broadly, addressing violations committed by the former regime.
The other is focused on investigating the estimated 300,000 Syrians considered missing and widely believed to have disappeared into al-Assad’s notorious prison system and buried in mass graves.
A woman holds a portrait of a missing relative during a protest outside the Hijaz train station in Damascus on December 27, 2024, calling for accountability in Syria [Anwar Amro/AFP]
While the scale of the missing is often reported as more than 100,000 people, the head of the National Commission on Missing Persons believes it is approximately 300,000.
Ever since the fall, there have been concerns that this number is rising, with UN Human Rights spokesperson Thameen al-Kheetan saying they “continue to receive worrying reports about dozens of abductions and enforced disappearances”.
Both national committees have met international experts to draw lessons from other transitional justice processes.
But Danny al-Baaj, vice president for advocacy and public relations at the Syrian Forum, believes “we’re far behind any real progress”.
“A framework is still missing. A special law on transitional justice is still missing,” he said.
The families of the hundreds of thousands of forcibly disappeared Syrians are also demanding answers.
Wafa Ali Mustafa is a Syrian activist whose father, Ali Mustafa, was arrested in the capital, Damascus, 12 years ago.
“Families of the detainees are not going on the streets every day saying that now you have to dig mass graves,” she said.
“They’re saying at least communicate with us, at least let us know what you are doing.”
The head of the National Commission on Missing Persons, Mohammad Reda Jalkhi, explained that Syria needs a huge amount of resources.
Tasked with investigating one of Syria’s most painful chapters, Mohammad Reda Jalkhi leads the National Commission on Missing Persons, searching for the truth about the forcibly disappeared [Harriet Tatham/Al Jazeera]
“We need to do very hard work on building capacity, preparing the infrastructure, collecting data, analysing data, and equipping laboratories,” Jalkhi said.
“All this does not happen overnight.”
The government has made dozens of arrests, including people linked to the former regime.
It has been posting glossy videos on social media of prison guards making confessions and suspects appearing before judges.
But questions remain about transparency.
“Of course, every time they arrest someone, people get very, very happy and grateful,” Wafa added.
“Unfortunately, we don’t really know what’s happening to these people, we don’t know where they’re being held, we don’t know what kind of investigation they’re being exposed to.”
There is also ambiguity around arrests of security and military personnel who were linked to sectarian violence in Suwayda earlier this year, which killed hundreds of people.
But the lead investigator of the Suwayda killings declined to say how many.
“My problem with the mass arrests,” said al-Baaj, “is that it’s not according to a plan.”
“We don’t know how the government is doing its work.”
Holding perpetrators accountable
One of the big hopes among Syrians is for public, national trials of Assad-era war crimes.
Hasan al-Hariri helped to smuggle more than 1.3 million pieces of documentary evidence out of Syria.
For more than a decade, Hasan al-Hariri led a team of investigators who snuck more than a million pieces of evidence out of Syria [Harriet Tatham/Al Jazeera]
Since the start of the war in 2011, he has been working for the Commission for International Justice and Accountability (CIJA), which specialises in collecting criminal evidence.
Al-Hariri led a team of people who would locate and retrieve paperwork from places like regime intelligence buildings and police stations – in areas where al-Assad’s forces had been driven out, or while fighting was still going on.
They then came up with creative ways to sneak the valuable documents through military checkpoints and eventually across the border.
“Sometimes we used to take advantage of moving furniture,” al-Hariri said.
“We used to put the documents underneath the car’s floor and fill it with the furniture of the house.”
CIJA now has a vast archive of security, military and intelligence documents that link war crimes to regime officials at the highest levels, all the way up to al-Assad himself.
“Countries that saw conflicts, such as Bosnia, began work after five years and started collecting evidence, so the evidence was gone, or only a few simple things could be collected,” al-Hariri said.
“We worked during the conflict, so the evidence was alive.”
But while that suggests Syria has a head-start in the judicial process, national trials are still a long way away.
One of the 1.3 million documents al-Hariri hopes will be used to prosecute Assad regime officials [Harriet Tatham/Al Jazeera]
The Assad-era legal system is still being reformed.
“It needs legal infrastructure, administrative infrastructure, courts, judges, and resources,” said al-Baaj.
But he added that there is an eagerness among Syrians.
“All of us want to see these public trials, want to see the whole process of transitional justice starting.”
That includes people like al-Amayiri, who wants to see Saqr face trial.
But he says his biggest desire is to be able to mourn his loved ones.
“It is now a dream for us to have a grave for our family to visit,” he said.
