Syrian Head of Forensics Defects, Has Evidence of Assad’s Chemical Weapon Use: Report

By Tara MacIsaac
Tara MacIsaac
Tara MacIsaac
Tara MacIsaac is a writer based in Canada.
September 3, 2013Updated: July 18, 2015

A Syrian forensic medicine expert has defected to Turkey and is expected to make public evidence that President Bashar Assad’s regime perpetrated a chemical weapons attack, reported Reuters Tuesday morning. 

Abdeltawwab Shahrour was head of the forensic medicine committee in Aleppo. He has evidence of a chemical attack on March 19 in Khan al-Assal, rather than the August 21 attack recently investigated by the United Nations in Damascus.

A Syrian opposition coalition spokesperson informed Reuters of Shahrour’s intentions to reveal his evidence. 

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