A court in the Southern German city of Stutgart on Tuesday sentenced a Syrian man to life for war crimes, stating that he committed for the country’s former dictator Bashar Assad during the Syrian civil war.Most of the Syrian citizens are now living worldwide, which included tests from 30 witnesses in the test, which began last October.The court said that the verdict could be appealed.
What was that person’s charge?
The 33-year-old was found guilty of leading a Hizbullah-supported militia, who persecuted the Sunni Muslim citizens in his hometown Busra al-Sham in his hometown of southern Syria.Lebanese Iranian -backed Shia group Hizbollah gave his support to Assad during the civil war.Among other things, the court found that in 2012, the militia raided and looted the house of an unarmed 21 -year -old student, shooting him. The victim’s mother and brother were among the prosecution witnesses.
The court also stated that in 2013, Militia beat three people with Kalashnikovs, who tortured him to Assad’s military intelligence, who tortured him and took him captive under inhuman conditions. The court’s verdict also stated that in 2014 the group forced a 40 -year -old man and his family from their home, after which the man was tortured to the extent that he was unable to walk due to his injuries.The man was arrested in December 2023 in the southern state of Baden-Vurtemburg, of which the Stutgart is the capital.
Testing under universal jurisdiction
German prosecutors have used universal jurisdiction laws to search for testing for several suspects tortured during the Syrian civil war.In 2022, a German court sentenced Anwar Raslan, an former-intelligence officer Anwar Raslan for murder, rape and crimes against humanity in 2011 and 2012, first convicted for state-backed torture during Syrian civil war.Several other cases related to crimes committed during the Syrian Civil War are being heard in German courts as well as in France and Sweden.The Syrian civil war, which began in 2011 after a rift by Assad’s rule over the pro -democracy protests, ended at the end of 2024 when the autocratic leader was excluded in an Islamist -led rebel aggressive.
