An indictment was unsealed today in the Northern District of Illinois charging two high-ranking Syrian officials under former President Bashar al-Assad with war crimes. The indictment charges the former Syrian intelligence officials with engaging in a conspiracy to commit cruel and inhuman treatment of civilian detainees, including U.S. citizens, during the course of the Syrian
Article was heavy on ‘shock value’ in description of atrocities, kinda light on other details.
As one not versed in legalese, does ‘unsealed’ mean ‘brought for the first time’ or ‘revisited’?