Salem Michel Al-Salem, 58, appears by video at Westminster Magistrates' Court slumped in an armchair with a breathing tube, does not enter a plea and has his case transferred to the Central Criminal Court for a hearing on Friday.Prosecutors charge Salem Michel Al-Salem with three counts of murder as crimes against humanity, three counts of torture and one count of conduct ancillary to murder under the International Criminal Court Act 2001 for alleged killings and torture during the suppression of demonstrations in the Jobar suburb of Damascus in 2011 and 2012.Chief Magistrate
Paul Goldspring rejects a defence request to anonymise
Salem Michel Al-Salem, grants conditional bail with a 24-hour curfew and police checks, and investigators from the
Metropolitan Police war crimes team and Counter Terrorism Policing
London say the probe began in December 2021 and involved witnesses across several European nations.