During his five-day visit, Megally said he had toured several notorious detention centres and mass grave sites around Damascus and met with justice and foreign ministry officials.
He expressed hope that the new authorities would “recognise the work we’ve been doing is actually of good use for them, both in dealing with the accountability and justice going forward”.
“We want to be able to now go to the places we were documenting without access to the country to reconfirm, in essence, the information we’ve been gathering” and fill the gaps, he said.
“I think we’ve covered practically every war crime that people could think of, but it wouldn’t surprise me if something else emerges – but hopefully not.”
