German court sentences Syrian doctor to life in jail for crimes against humanity
German court sentences Syrian doctor to life in jail for crimes against humanity
Alaa Mousa accused of torturing detainees at military hospitals during Syrian civil war under former ruler Bashar al-Assad
Alaa M accused of torturing detainees at military hospitals during Syrian civil war under former ruler Bashar al-Assad
A Syrian doctor has been sentenced to life imprisonment for crimes against humanity in his home country – including murder and torture – by a German court.
The 40-year-old man, whose identity was only disclosed as Alaa M, worked as a junior doctor in an army hospital and a military intelligence prison in Homs and Damascus in Syria, in 2011 and 2012, in the early phase of the civil war.
He abused prisoners accused of being members of the opposition and who were considered enemies of the Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad who had participated in the uprisings against the regime during the Arab spring. He was convicted by the court in Frankfurt am Main of two deaths and eight cases of severe torture.
Now do Israeli war criminals
He is not accused. There has been a judgement. He did torture and cause two deaths.
beatings and kickings, or how he deliberately set broken bones with insufficient levels of anaesthetic. They also told the court how the doctor had poured flammable liquid on their wounds and parts of their body – and in two cases, including that of a 14-year-old boy, on their genitals – and set them on fire. He injected one prisoner with a deadly poison while the man had been trying to defend himself. He died in front of fellow prisoners.
The court also heard how he had beaten and kicked a young man suffering from epileptic seizures, knowing he had the condition, which led to it worsening. He later administered a pill, which caused the man to die in the presence of his brother
Glad this guy will be behind bars for at least the next 15 years. What a sadistic piece of shit
We need to bring back cruel and unusual punishments for people like this.
No.
Shouldn't they simply let him be judged in syria where he comit the crimes? When german leaders will be jailed for support israel war crimes?
German law says that if you are in Germany, you can be tried for crimes against humanity anywhere.
After he has served his sentence he may return to Syria to be tried there or the Syrian government may petition for his extradition before his sentence is up. Note that he can not be extradited if he's under threat of receiving the death penalty at the destination. But all that is theoretical.