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Thursday, July 3, 2025
Volume:
41
Issue:
7
Abstract:
On June 16, 2025, the Frankfurt Higher Regional Court in Frankfurt, Germany, sentenced a Syrian doctor to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole for crimes against humanity and war crimes. The defendant, who has only been identified as Alaa M. due to German legal privacy laws, was accused of murdering two people and torturing nine more in Syria in a period between 2011 and 2012.