A Syrian military defector using the pseudonym 'Caesar' wears a hood as he testifies before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee during a hearing titled, "Nine Years of Brutality: Assad's Campaign Against the Syrian People" on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., March 11, 2020. REUTERS/Joshua Roberts
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A Syrian defector who smuggled thousands of photographs of torture out of the country, helping prompt new U.S. sanctions, pleaded with U.S. lawmakers on Wednesday to enforce tough measures against Syria's government over atrocities during its civil war.
"We have worked and we continue to work in order to bring the pleas and the screams of tens of thousands of those that remain in detention," the defector, known only by the code-name "Caesar," said amid tight security at a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing.
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