A German court has handed down a life sentence to a Syrian doctor convicted of committing acts of torture as part of Bashar al-Assad’s brutal crackdown on dissent.

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A Syrian doctor who had practised in Germany was sentenced to life in prison by a German court on Monday for crimes against humanity and war crimes after he was found guilty of torturing ...

Syrian doctor gets life sentence in Germany for slayings, torture under Assad The prosecution of Alaa Mousa relied on the legal concept of universal jurisdiction, under which normal rules on ...

According to German prosecutors, Alaa Mousa abused and killed prisoners suspected to be enemies of then-Syrian President Bashar al-Assad while working as a doctor in military hospitals and prisons ...

A German court on Monday handed a life sentence to a Syrian doctor who tortured opponents of former ruler Bashar al-Assad during the country's brutal civil war. The higher regional court in Frankfurt ...

FRANKFURT (Reuters) -A Syrian doctor who had practised in Germany was sentenced to life in prison by a German court on Monday for crimes against humanity and war crimes after he was found guilty ...