US EditionGerman court sentences Syrian doctor to life in prison for torture and war crimes in his homeland
- A German court sentenced Syrian doctor Alaa Mousa to life imprisonment on June 16, 2025, for torturing and killing detainees in Syria.
- Between 2011 and 2012, Mousa committed crimes including torture and murder within medical facilities located in Damascus and Homs during Assad's harsh efforts to suppress dissent amid the Syrian civil war.
- Witnesses described severe abuse including beatings with medical tools, burning wounds, and humiliation, while relatives of witnesses faced threats and possible abductions.
- Presiding judge Christoph Koller called the crimes part of Assad's regime's brutal reaction, and Fadel Abdul Ghany called the verdict historic for Syria's transitional justice.
- The ruling, following a nearly three-and-a-half-year trial beginning in 2022, underscores the use of universal jurisdiction to prosecute international crimes and may aid Syrian accountability efforts.
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His past has caught up with and brought to justice a Syrian doctor who has lived in Germany for ten years. On Monday, the 40-year-old was sentenced to life imprisonment for torture and war crimes. The court in Frankfurt am Main found it proven that Alaa M. had killed two people and seriously injured nine people. The crimes were committed in 2011 and 2012 in Syria. For today's 40-year-old defendant, the detention was imposed in custody. An early …
A Syrian doctor, accused of torture of opponents of Bashar al-Assad's regime, was sentenced to life imprisonment on Monday by the German court, after a three-year trial in Frankfurt. ...
Oberlandesgericht Frankfurt/M. - Lifelong Imprisonment for Syrian Doctor for Crimes Against Humanity
A Syrian doctor has been sentenced to life imprisonment in Germany for crimes against humanity.
On Monday, German justice sentenced doctor Alaa M. to life imprisonment for crimes against humanity after he was tried for torturing and killing detainees in military hospitals under the regime of the already deposed president Bachar el Asad in his home country, Syria. Alaa M. arrived in Germany as a refugee in 2015 and was arrested five years later recognizing him as several victims also welcomed into the country. Continue reading
The court in Frankfurt sentenced Alaa M. to life imprisonment. The judges are convinced that the physician has tortured several prisoners in Syria.
A Syrian man has been convicted in Germany of war crimes and torture.
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