Highlights
Requested: help in the search for victims of the Shashdarak prison
Driebergen - Afghanistan - The International Crimes Team of the Netherlands Police, are again investigating war crimes committed in Afghanistan between 1984 and 1992, this time focussing on a different detention facility: the KhaD’s Shashdarak prison. To achieve this, we need your help.
Alleged militia member associated with Syrian regime arrested in the Netherlands on suspicion of war crimes
Kerkrade - The International Crimes Team of the Dutch police arrested a 34-year-old man in Kerkrade on Tuesday 24 May 2022 on suspicion of war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in Syria in 2013. The suspect had been living in the Netherlands since 2020 and had applied for asylum there. At the end of 2020 the Dutch national crime squad received tips that the man would have been a member of a prominent Syrian militia that fought on the side of President Assad's regime in the Syrian civil war. Never before has anyone been arrested under these suspicions in the Netherlands who allegedly sided with the Syrian regime.
MH17 - Investigation requests Russian military to share information
The Netherlands - The Joint Investigation Team (JIT) that conducts the criminal investigation into the downing of flight Malaysia Airlines MH17 over eastern Ukraine, releases a new appeal for information. The appeal is made on behalf of the continuing investigation and is addressed in particular to the citizens of the Russian city of Kursk. According to the JIT the Buk-TELAR that downed the plane was delivered from Kursk. All 298 people on board the passenger airliner were killed in that crash on 17 July 2014.