Ahmad Al K: Dutch court tries refugee over Syria murder video

June 15, 2021   

(BBC) A refugee in the Netherlands has gone on trial for war crimes over a killing carried out during the Syrian conflict.

Ahmad Al K, 49, and his family arrived in the Netherlands in 2014.

He was arrested in 2019 after he was identified in a video showing the murder of an unarmed Syrian soldier.

He has admitted being present at the time, but his lawyer argues he wanted to exchange the captive for his brothers, who were being held in government prisons.

Ahmad Al K denies that he took part in the killing under the name of Abu Khuder, allegedly a local leader of the jihadist al-Nusra Front. It is the first trial in the Netherlands involving a Syrian refugee, although cases have been brought in Germany and Sweden.

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