Germany sentenced a Assad official to life in prison

A German court today sentenced a former intelligence officer to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's security services to life imprisonment for murder, rape and crimes against humanity.

Anwar R. He is charged with 58 murders, rapes and sexual assaults at the prison in Damascus, which was monitored by his intelligence unit, Reuters reports.

He denied all charges. It was the world's first criminal case launched due to state torture during the civil war in Syria, which began in 2011.

Last year, Eyad A., another former Syrian intelligence service member, was sentenced to four and a half years in prison for supporting the torture of civilians.

Come on A. and Anwar R. They were arrested in Germany in 2019, a few years after searching for asylum in that country as refugees, the AP agency recalled.

The second trial of a Syrian doctor suspected of crimes against humanity and torture of prisoners at a military hospital in the town of Homs 2011-2012 will begin next week in Frankfurt.

German prosecutors also accuse him of killing a prisoner with lethal injection.