
UN rights council: investigate Assad regime atrocities
The United Nations Human Rights Council passed a resolution demanding accountability for violations and abuses by Syria’s ousted Bashar Assad regime through “transitional justice,” and declaring support for “the commitments of the interim authorities” to an “orderly and inclusive transition” and establishment of a timeline for free elections. Assad al-Shaibani, foreign minister of the newly re-founded Syrian Arab Republic, welcomed the resolution, viewing it as an acknowledgement of the government’s “local and international efforts to protect human rights.” (Image: Mapping MENA)