Syria faces torture case at top UN court

Canada and the Netherlands have taken Damascus to the International Court of Justice over allegations of torture, the tribunal said yesterday, in the first case at the UN's top court over Syria's brutal civil war.

The Hague-based ICJ said the Dutch and Canadians accused Syria of breaching a UN convention against "torture or other cruel treatment", including the "use of chemical weapons".

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