Activists hope to mount similar cases, both in Germany and elsewhere, against perpetrators of gender-based violence in Syria, Kaleck added.
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Kaleck said he hoped the German government, which initially branded the villagers - including children - as Taliban and denied them access to legal files for months, would reach out to the victims with a formal apology, now that the threat of criminal liability is off the table.
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