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A former Syrian security officer sentenced to prison in Austria for abusing detainees \u2060during Bashar al-Assad’s rule left the country while appealing against his sentence and returned to Syria earlier this month, \u2060according to four sources and messages reviewed by Reuters.<\/p>\n

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A member of the former rebel group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham stands guard near an image of Syria’s Bashar al-Assad in Damascus, Syria, 2025. Credit: Yamam Al Shaar\/Reuters<\/p>\n

A member of the former rebel group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham stands guard near an image of Syria’s Bashar al-Assad in Damascus, Syria, 2025. Credit: Yamam Al Shaar\/Reuters<\/p>\n

Lieutenant Colonel Musab Abu Rukba was handed an eight-year prison sentence last month by a Vienna court that found him guilty of bodily harm, aggravated coercion and sexual assault against detained opponents of Assad while he headed the police’s criminal investigations department in the city of Raqqa \u200cmore than a decade ago.<\/p>\n

The Syria Justice and Accountability Centre, a Syrian human rights organisation, said the case exposed shortcomings in \u200cthe Austrian judicial system after authorities allowed Abu Rukba to remain at liberty throughout proceedings and while challenging his prison sentence on appeal.<\/p>\n

Abu Rukba had pleaded not guilty. In early August, he arrived in his hometown of Nawa in southern Daraa province, where his family held a reception to celebrate his return, the four sources familiar with the case said.<\/p>\n

The invitation said he had been granted “release from prison,” according to a message sent to local dignitaries and seen by Reuters.<\/p>\n

Syria’s ministries of Interior and Justice did not immediately respond to a Reuters comment request.<\/p>\n

A spokesperson for the Austrian court that convicted him told Reuters on Friday that ahead of the trial, he was found not to pose a flight \u2060risk because he had been living in Austria since 2014 and was seeking asylum there along with his family.<\/p>\n

He was not remanded in custody during the trial and was also not subject to other \u200crestrictions. Until the appeals process is included, his \u2060departure from Austria does not constitute a breach of any Austrian laws or rulings, \u200cthe spokesperson said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A former Syrian security officer sentenced to prison in Austria for abusing detainees \u2060during Bashar al-Assad’s rule left…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":574666,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[49,112012,54,50,9150,51,42,86,1031,9152,45061,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-584416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-benjamin-netanyahu","tag-board-of-peace","tag-donald-trump","tag-gaza","tag-gaza-aid","tag-hamas","tag-headlines","tag-hezbollah","tag-idf","tag-israel-u-s","tag-jared-kushner","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=584416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584416\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/574666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=584416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=584416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=584416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}