Musab Abu Rukbah, right, and Roman Valach, one of Abu Rukbah’s lawyers, leave a courtroom after a hearing in Vienna on June 8, 2026. Abu Rukbah, a former police chief, left Austria after appealing his eight-year sentence for crimes committed during Syria’s civil war. (Marylise Vigneau/The New York Times) By CARLOTTA GALL and HUSSAM HAMMOUD When a court in Vienna last month convicted two former Syrian officials of abuses during their country’s civil war, the case was celebrated as a…
