Jurists: Prosecuting ISIS detainees should be priority for international community

 The file of ISIS mercenaries detainees in northern and eastern Syria is still one of the most complex files facing the Autonomous Administration alone without any assistance of the international community and the Global Coalition in the region, and in light of the Turkish occupation state's continuation of its barbaric attacks on the region, the threat of ISIS to the region and the world is renewed.

 In this regard, our agency met with human rights defenders from Raqqa and the Euphrates region, who stressed the need to hold ISIS detainees accountable and to establish an international court in the region to be supervised by the international community.

 A member of the North and East Syrian Lawyers Union, Saleh Salameh, said, "The presence of mercenaries in detention centers poses a threat to the Autonomous Administration, and they are time bombs. What happened in al-Hasakah prison is evidence of their danger to the Autonomous Administration and the peoples of north and east Syria."

 Saleh Salama added, "The international community bears responsibility in the event of any further breach of prisons in the region," noting that holding ISIS mercenaries' detainees should be held accountable is a priority of the international community.

 He continued, "We jurists have a duty to demand a special international court to try these mercenaries. We also appeal to all international organizations to support the Autonomous Administration to conduct a fair trial legally and publicly to impose penalties on each of them."

In turn, the lawyer and member of the Kobani Lawyers Union, Mustafa Sheikh Muslim, said: "The international community is reluctant in this case, and does not want to reveal the hidden to try these elements. There is a legal human rights protocol to investigate any crime, whether criminal, political or terrorist, as a result of this protocol, all papers will be revealed, but the international community does not need to reveal the hidden, perhaps at least for the time being."

 "In the near future, there may be a conflict of interest between the countries that funded them. They will reveal the papers as blackmail and use them as political pressure cards," Muslim said.

 And Muslim added, "We are the people of this region that contains the prisons of terrorists. We demanded that terrorists be tried from time to time, a diplomatic delegation from many countries comes to the Office of Foreign Relations in the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria. A number of children and women have been handed over, and this is not enough, but there is no one from  countries take the issue seriously regarding the issue of establishing an international court to try ISIS terrorists seriously, or take a serious stance towards this issue, which has significant repercussions on the Autonomous Administration.

 Muslim called on the international community and the GC to work on the establishment of an international court that establish a ruling for all ISIS mercenaries in the detainees in the region.

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