The previous day, prosecutor Julian Nicholls had demanded the maximum penalty for the enthusiastic, energetic and effective perpetrator of abuses carried out in the western Darfur region. Prosecutors say that among his crimes, Abd-Al-Rahman killed two people with an axe. You literally have an axe murderer before you, Nicholls told the judges in The Hague, as Abd-Al-Rahman looked on. Only a life sentence will serve the interest of retribution and deterrence.
The ministry stated that Abdullah was implicated in committing serious violations against detainees in Sednaya prison, accusing him of being directly responsible for carrying out the executions of detainees inside Sednaya military prison during his tenure as commander of the military police. The prison, outside Damascus, was one of the darkest elements of the al-Assad family rule, which ended after more than 50 years when Bashar al-Assad was overthrown by an offensive in December.