Deutsche Staatsanwälte gegen Assads Folterknechte
Vanessa Schlesier Vanessa Schlesier

Deutsche Staatsanwälte gegen Assads Folterknechte

SPIEGEL

German prosecutors against Assad's torturers: "I saw flesh and bones"

German investigators arrested suspected torturers of the Assad regime for the first time. German citizens also ended up in the regime's prisons - one is still there today.

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Suspected IS fighter tracked down in Germany
Vanessa Schlesier Vanessa Schlesier

Suspected IS fighter tracked down in Germany

SPIEGEL

The second police action against jihadists within a week: investigators searched the flat of a suspected former IS fighter near Mainz. His name: Bassam S. Shortly before, SPIEGEL TV had tracked down the man after weeks of research. (07.02.2016)

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Interview with Aung San Suu Kyi
WELT, Birma, Interview Vanessa Schlesier WELT, Birma, Interview Vanessa Schlesier

Interview with Aung San Suu Kyi

WELT

She is regarded as Burma's shining light. But in recent months she has come under increasing criticism, especially abroad: Aung San Suu Kyi, the 68-year-old Nobel Peace Prize winner. After 15 years of house arrest, the opposition politician has been back on the political stage since the end of 2010, leading the National League for Democracy in parliament and fighting for Myanmar, as the country has officially been called since the military dictatorship, to become a constitutional state.

J. Eigendorf and V. Schlesier

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The boy who started the revolution
Vanessa Schlesier Vanessa Schlesier

The boy who started the revolution

WELT

"Down with the president!" Bashir Abazed and his friends sprayed on the school wall and ended up in the torture cellars of the Assad regime. After bloody protests, they were released. Today Bashir lives as a refugee in Jordan.

– Bashir Abazed, interviewed by Vanessa Schlesier

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