COMMENTARY ON A JUDICIAL FARCE The Torturer and the Ignored Flight Risk

What an exemplary trial. And what a bitter aftertaste it threatens to leave behind. At the beginning of June, the Vienna Regional Court sentenced two henchmen of the Syrian Assad dictatorship who had fled to Austria to eight years in prison each. A panel of lay judges found a former general of the General Intelligence Service and a former police commander guilty of being responsible for the brutal…