German court sentences former Syrian officer to life
Jan 13, 2022
German court sentences former Syrian officer to life — — -Brussels (Brussels Morning) A German court today sentenced a former colonel in the Syrian army for crimes against humanity. In a landmark verdict handed out in the first-ever global trial over state-sponsored torture in that Middle-Eastern country, 58-year-old Anwar Raslan was handed a life sentence after being found guilty of overseeing the murder of 27 people at the Al-Khatib detention centre in Damascus, the so-called “Branch 251”. The murders took place between 2011 and 2012.
