Life Sentence for Syrian Doctor Convicted of Torture and Murder in Germany - The Syrian Observer

Life Sentence for Syrian Doctor Convicted of Torture and Murder in Germany - The Syrian Observer

In a landmark step toward accountability for war crimes committed in Syria, a regional court in Frankfurt, Germany, sentenced Syrian doctor Alaa M. to life imprisonment on Wednesday, after finding him guilty of crimes against humanity—including the torture and killing of detainees in military hospitals operated by the Assad regime. The verdict concludes nearly four years of legal proceedings, which involved close cooperation between the German F…

A former Syrian prison guard, Fahad A., has been indicted by German federal prosecutors after it emerged he was involved in brutal torture at the notorious Al-Khatib prison. He is accused of at least 70 deaths and crimes against humanity. His case marks another milestone in the international legal accountability of the Assad regime’s atrocities.

He hung people up on the ceiling, poured water over them, gave them electric shocks and struck them with cables: Only one year Fahad A. worked as a guard in a Syrian secret service prison. During this time, more than 70 people died as a result of his mistreatment. Many years later, he went to the German police network.

Germany arrests Syrian accused of crimes under Assad

An alleged former Syrian prison guard has been arrested in Germany on suspicion of committing crimes against humanity under former president Bashar al-Assad, prosecutors said Tuesday.The man, identified only as Fahad A., is accused of "acts of killing, torture and deprivation of liberty" while he worked in a Damascus facility run by Syrian intelligence in 2011 and 2012, during the Arab Spring protests.

Fahad A. is said to have worked in the Syrian Al-Khatib prison and been involved in cruel torture. His arrest is one of the few that has so far occurred in Germany because of the accusation of Syrian state torture. By Philip Raillon.

Frankfurt am Main – For more than three years, a Syrian doctor has been on trial before the Frankfurt Higher Regional Court (OLG) for crimes against humanity. Now the trial is drawing to a close. Over 186 days of hearings, more than 50 witnesses were heard, several experts were heard, and countless documents and photographs were examined, according to a...